By Edna Hibel
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Mother and Children" c.1970, is a colors lithograph on paper by American artist Edna Hibel, 1917-2014. It is signed and numbered II 3/10 Ed. 200 in pencil by the artist. The The artwork (sheet ) size is 34 x 23 inches, framed size is 40 x 29 inches. Custom framed in original wooden decorated grey/silver frame. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Edna Hibel, a painter of sentimental pictures of children, has had a more than 60-year career as painter and lithographer and promoter of peace through exhibitions of her artwork.
She was born in 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents were Abraham and Lena Hibel, and she was raised in the Boston area and educated at Brookline High School where she met her future husband, Theodore Plotkin.
She began to paint when she was nine years old and learned watercolor during summers at the shore where her family vacationed in Maine and Hull, Massachusetts.
Hibel studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, from 1935-39, receiving a Sturtevant Traveling Fellowship to Mexico. In Boston, in 1966, she began lithography, continuing in 1970 in Zurich, where she still works every year. She has created lithographic works with up to 32 stones (or colors) on paper, silk, wood veneer and porcelain. The latter pieces are called lithographs on porcelain and result from a complicated process, that she keeps a secret, whereby she transfers stone lithographic color separations onto Bavarian hard paste porcelain. Hibel has created the "Arte Ovale" series and various plaques with this technique.
She organized the Edna Hibel Museum of Art, in Jupiter, Florida, to display and promote her work and also created a United Nations stamp, "Mother Earth."
In 1995, she was commissioned by the Foundation of the U.S. National Archives to commemorate the 75th anniversary of women receiving the universal right to vote. At the ceremony, Ms. Lucy Baines Johnson referred to Hibel as the "Heart and Conscience of America."
In November, 2001, the World Cultural Council based in Mexico City gave her the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts.
Hibel's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in more than 20 countries including Russia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, and the United States, and under the royal patronage of Count and Countess Bernadotte of Germany, Count Thor Bonde of Sweden, Prince and the late Princess Rainier of Monaco and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England.
Pope John Paul II gave her a medal of honor as did the late Belgian King Baudouin. She also received honorary Doctoral degrees including from Eureka College, and Northwood University of Florida, Michigan and Texas. She also has received many humanitarian honors for her charitable efforts for children's and medical charities.
Her exhibitions "Golden Bridge" and " Peace Through Wisdom" were efforts to promote peace and cultural understanding between China, the United States, Yugoslavia and Russia, and a television documentary titled "Hibel's Russian Palette" was based on her trips and art shows in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. In 2001, Edna received a Lifetime Achievement Award from "Women in the Visual Arts," an organization of artists in the South Florida area.
Works in Permanent Collections:
Harvard University
Boston University
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Springfield Museum of Arts, Massachusetts
University of New Hampshire
Fleischmann Collection, Cincinnati
Detroit Art Institute
Milwaukee Art Museum
Phoenix Art Museum
La Jolla Museum, California
Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Florida
Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Georgia
WarrenHall Coutts, Ill, Memorial Museum of Art, El Dorado, Kansas
Palais des Nations,Geneva, Switzerland
United Nations Headquarters, New York City
Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California
Russian Academy of Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
Hibel Museum of Art, Lake Worth, Florida
One Artist Exhibitions:
Shacknow Museum of Fine Arts, Plantation, Florida, 2000
Cornell Museum of Art and History, Delray Beach, Florida, 1999 (and 1993)
Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, D.C., 1999
The Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas, 1999 (and 1998)
Mitsukoshi Fine Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1995 (and 1994)
Lyme Academy of Fine Art, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1994
Grenchen Art Museum, and Galerie BrechbUhl, Grenchen, Switzerland, 1992
Soviet Union Academy of Art, and Exhibition Hall of the Russian Union of Artists, Leningrad (St. Petersburg),
Russia, U.S.S.R., 1990
Northern Indiana Arts Association Gallery, Munste~ Indiana, 1990
Galerie Vindobona, Bad Kissingen,West Germany, 1988
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1989
St. Peter An...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Prints
