Esphyr Slobodkina Retrospective Opens at Rosenberg & Co. in New York

Esphyr Slobodkina, a Russian-born artist who helped pioneer dynamic abstraction in New York during the 1940s, is the subject of a new exhibition at Rosenberg & Co. in New York. Titled “An Unbound Creativity,” the show opens this week and remains on view through November 14th. It is the largest gallery presentation of Slobodkina’s work in New York since her death in 2002. The exhibition follows the gallery’s recent showing of her works at Independent 20th Century in September. While Slobodkina was one of the few women to achieve recognition among the many men who found success in New York abstraction at the time, she is now most widely known for her 1940 children’s book Caps for Sale, which she wrote and illustrated and which has sold millions of copies. Her broader artistic output has largely been overlooked, but this exhibition signals a renewed attention to her practice. Additional details about the show were not provided in the source material.