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Sylvia Sleigh

Sylvia Sleigh (1916 - 2010) was active/lived in New York / Wales.  Sylvia Sleigh is known for Figure, genre and portrait painting, feminist issues.

Realist-feminist painter Sylvia Sleigh emigrated to America in 1961. She was born in Llandudno, Wales in 1916, studying in Sussex, England at the Brighton School of Art. In the 1940s, at art school, she received the harsh advice, "You have no talent. You're just here to waste time until you get married."  She ultimately received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1982, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1985.

Sleigh also was awarded the Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Professorship at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, where she taught. Sleigh has also taught at the New School for Social Research, in New York City, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  She was married to art critic and Guggenheim Museum (New York) curator Lawrence Alloway.

Sylvia Sleigh has had one-person exhibitions at Northwestern University; Bennington College, Vermont; Ohio State University, Columbus; University of Rhode Island, Kingston; Rutgers   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9161 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Sylvia Sleigh

   Publications  Book References:  15
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Sylvia Sleigh
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Feminism at 40 May 2003 Lovelace, Carey Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions September 2000 Editors, Art in America Yes
15 Book References for Sylvia Sleigh
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1990 Chadwick, Whitney Women, Art, and Society 384 Yes
1988 Nochlin, Linda Women, Art and Power and Other Essays 181 No
1988 Rosen, Randy, et al Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream 300 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Goodyear, Frank H, Jr. Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts) 255 Yes
1980 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art in the Seventies 128 Yes
1978 Hennessey, William J Artists Look at Art
(Exhibition catalog)
60 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1971 Calas, Nicolas and Elena Icons and Images of the Sixties 347 No
1968 Vassar College Art Gallery Realism Now
(Exhibition catalog)
46 No
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