Beatrice Mandelman

(American, 1912–1998)

skull by beatrice mandelman

Beatrice Mandelman

Skull, ca. 1940

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Biography

Timeline

1912
Born, Newark, NJ
1920 - 1925
Evening classes at the School of Fine and Industrial Arts, Newark, NJ; she met Robert Jonas. Through Jonas, Mandelman became acquainted with Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and other members of the New York vanguard.
1930 - 1932
New Jersey College for Women, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1932
Pursued certificate program at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. Introduced to the concepts of Cubism and School of Paris by her teacher Bernard Gussow, a social realist painter.
1938
Assistant in the mural division of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Arts Project
1942
Married Louis Ribak
1943
Federal Art Project ended, eliminating Mandelman’s job in the Graphics Division.
1944
Moved to Taos, NM at the suggestion of Ribak’s teacher John Sloan. During her time there she founded the Taos Valley Art School and helped found the Taos Art Association.
1948 - 1949
Paris, France, studied with the French master Fernand Leger
1950
Selected by regional jury, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, for Metropolitan Museum exhibition “American Art Today”
Purchase prize for Figure of Toy, Fourth New Mexico Exhibition of Prints and Drawings,Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery, Santa Fe,NM

Exhibitions

2003
“Taos Modern: Postwar Abstract Artists In New Mexico,” Canfield Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2002
“Taos Modernist - Beatrice Mandelman,” Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2001
“The Triumph of Bea Mandelman,” Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
2000
“Modernism,” Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
1999
One-artist show “Bea Mandelman: the 70s through 90s” Fenix Gallery, Taos, NM
1997
“Taos Today - Contemporary Taos Artists>,” Arvada Center, Arvada, Colorado.
1996
“Beatrice Mandelman: Prints from the 1930s,” University of Kentucky Art Museum, Kentucky
1995
“The New Mexico Art Colony: Jewish Artists and Patrons 1875-1960,” Mizel Museum of Judaica, Denver, Colorado.
1991
“Prints from the Federal Art Project, 1935-1943” Associated American Artists Gallery, New York
1990
“Albuquerque 50s,” University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
“The Alcove Show – Life Stories,” Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM