Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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| Louise Nevelson | |
 Louise and Neith Nevelson c.1965 |
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| Birth name | Leah Berliawsky |
| Born | September 23, 1899 Kiev, Czarist Russia |
| Died | April 17, 1988 (aged 88) New York, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Assemblage art |
| Movement | Abstract expressionism |
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson (born Leah Berliawsky, September 23, 1899, Kiev, Czarist Russia - d. April 17, 1988, New York, New York) was a Russian-born American artist.
Nevelson is known for her abstract expressionist “crates” grouped together to form a new creation. She used found objects or everyday discarded things in her “assemblages” or assemblies, one of which was three stories high: ”When you put together things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created." Louise married Charles Nevelson after she graduated from high school in 1918, and together they had a child named Myron Nevelson. Louise and Charles later separated in 1931.
Mercedes Ruehl played Nevelson in Edward Albee's play "Occupant" at the Signature Theater in New York in summer 2008.
 Sky Cathedral, painted wood, 1982, Smithsonian American Art Museum |
 'Night Leaf', plexiglas sculpture by Louise Nevelson 1969, Smithsonian American Art Museum |
[edit] Books
- Busch, Julia M., A Decade of Sculpture: the New Media in the 1960's (The Art Alliance Press: Philadelphia; Associated University Presses: London, 1974) ISBN 0-87982-007-1
- Wilson, Laurie; Louise Nevelson : iconography and sources (New York : Garland Pub., 1981) ISBN 0-8240-3946-7
- Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 20045.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
[edit] External links
- Pace Wildenstein Gallery: Louise Nevelson
- Louise Nevelson Papers Online at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
