Artist
Janet Sobel
American, 1894–1968
Janet Sobel was an American Abstract Expressionism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Janet Sobel was born in Ukraine.
Janet Sobel (May 31, 1893 – November 11, 1968), born Jennie Olechovsky (occ. Lechovsky), was a Ukrainian-born American Abstract Expressionist painter who pioneered the drip painting technique; her work directly influenced Jackson Pollock. She was credited as exhibiting the first instance of all-over painting seen by Clement Greenberg, a notable art critic. Her career started mid-life, at age forty-five in 1938.
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