Sylvia Plimack Mangold

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Sylvia Mangold
Born
Sylvia Plimack

1938 (1938)
OccupationPainter
Spouse Robert Mangold
Children James Mangold
Andrew Mangold
Parent(s)Ethel and Maurice Plimack

Sylvia Plimack Mangold (born 1938) [1] is an American artist, painter, printmaker, and pastelist. She is known for her representational depictions of interiors and landscapes.

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Life and career

Sylvia Plimack was born in New York City to a family of Jewish background. [2] She is the daughter of Ethel (Rein), an office administrator, and Maurice Plimack, an accountant and businessman. [3] [4] [5] [6] She grew up in Queens, and attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, after high school she was accepted into the program at Cooper Union in 1956. She continued her studies at Yale University and graduated with a B.F.A. in 1961. In the same year she married Yale classmate and fellow painter Robert Mangold. [7] She is the mother of film director/screenwriter James Mangold and musician Andrew Mangold. [8]

Mangold’s work was included in the 1971 exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists held at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum [9] and the 2022 exhibition 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone also at the Aldrich. [10]

In the 1980s she introduced the images of the landscape to the canvas affixed by the image of masking tape. Eventually, the landscape image filled the entire canvas and focused on individual trees, their branches cropped so as to create the spaces between the limbs and branches of the trees. All the landscape paintings are done from observation. Even as the subject matter of Plimack Mangold's paintings has shifted, her work has always been based in perceptual realism, inviting viewers to observe from up close and mirroring her own process of observation. [11]

Mangold received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1975. [12] Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [13] the Neuberger Museum of Art [14] at the State University of New York at Purchase, and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery). [13]

Mangold received the 2007 Cooper Union President’s Citation Award and was inducted into The Cooper Union Hall of Fame in 2009. [15]

Selected collections

Selected bibliography

References

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  2. "Interview: 'Logan' director James Mangold". Thejc.com. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  3. Brutvan (1994), p. 115.
  4. Sylvia Plimack Mangold - works on paper, 1968-1991, Davison Art Center, University of Michigan. Museum of Art (1992), p. 7
  5. "SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD with John Yau". 11 December 2009.
  6. "Oral history interview with Sylvia Plimack Mangold". Aaa.si.edu. July 7, 1994.
  7. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold". November. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  8. "Sylvia Mangold". Art in Embassies. U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  9. "Lucy Lippard - Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists". Printed Matter. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  10. "52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone". The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  11. Berlind, Robert (July–August 2012). "Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Recent Works". The Brooklyn Rail.
  12. "CLARA". clara.nmwa.org. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  13. 1 2 "The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold". Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  14. Raynor, Vivien (1993). "ART; Wintry Scenes and Looking-Glass Worlds". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  15. "Alumni Profile: Sylvia Plimack Mangold, A'59". 26 May 2015. Retrieved 2021-12-19.
  16. Mangold, Sylvia Plimack (1976). "In Memory of My Father". Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  17. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  18. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold". Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  19. "Taped and Defined in the Fall by Sylvia Plimack Mangold". USEUM. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  20. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold". Kunst Museum Winterthur (in Swiss High German). 9 January 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  21. "Flexible and Stainless". Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1975. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  22. "Works – Sylvia Plimack Mangold". Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  23. "Collections Search". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  24. "Portrayal". The MFAH Collections. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  25. "Works – Sylvia Plimack Mangold". The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  26. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  27. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold". Walker Art Center. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  28. "Wadsworth Atheneum Collection". argus.wadsworthatheneum.org. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  29. "Sylvia Plimack Mangold". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 13 April 2025.

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