Susan Schwalb is a contemporary silverpoint artist.
Biography Schwalb was born in New York City (in 1944). She attended the Carnegie Mellon University. In 1983 she married composer Martin Boykan and works from her Manhattan studio.
Her work is represented in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., The Metropolitan Museum of Art the British Museum, London, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.
References
Further reading Beck-Friedman, Tova, November 2005, "Susan Schwalb: Drawn in Metal", The New York Art World Broude, Norma and Garrard, Mary (ed), (1994), "The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact," Harry Abrams Cohen, Joyce, August/September 1996, "Galaxies and Other Matter and Intervals", Art New England Earley, Sandra, 9 September 1985, "Art: The Siren Song of Silverpoint", The Wall Street Journal Eshoo, Amy, 560 Broadway- A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991–2006, Yale University Press, 2007 Faxon, Alicia, Susan Schwalb: Moments of Resonance, Art New England, June/July ’99 Faxon, Alicia, Drawing: Line or Image, New Art Examiner, 1/90 Faxon, Alicia and Moore, Sylvia, Pilgrims and Pioneers: New England Women in the Arts, Midmarch Arts Books, 1987 Glueck, Grace, Imagery from the Jewish Consciousness, The New York Times, 6/6/82 Harrison, Helen A., Contemporary Metalpoint Drawings, The New York Times, 4/3/94 Heller, Jules and Nancy G., American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, Garland Publishing Co., 1995 Kohen, Helen L., Silverpoint Makes for Golden Exhibit, The Miami Herald, 4/21/85 Langdon, Ann, The Creation Series, Art New England, December 1992 / January 1993 Langer, Cassandra, The Creation Series: 15 Years of Silverpoint, Women Artists News, Fall 1990 Mandel, Elizabeth, Intricate Enigma: a look at silverpoint, then and now, ArtsEditor.com, 1/25/2010 Marter, Joan, Susan Schwalb, Womanart, Winter ’77-’78 Mathews-Berenson, Margaret, The Light Touch, American Artist Drawing, Spring, 2004 McQuaid, Cate, Public Eyes; Light Grids; Gallery on the MBTA, The Boston Globe, 3/4/99 McQuaid, Cate, Natural Deceptions; Rejoicing Stars, Boston Globe, 5/2/96 Miller, Lynn and Swenson, Sally, Lives and Works, Talks with Women Artists, Scarecrow Press, 1981 Orenstein, Gloria, Feman Vision and Visibility: Contemporary Jewish Women Artists Visualize the Invisible, Femspec, Vol.4 Issue 2, Lexington Press, 2004 Schwendenwien, Jude, From Religious Symbols to Detailed Abstractions, The Hartford Courant, 10/25/92 Soltes, Ori Z., Fixing the World: Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century, Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 2003 Soltes, Ori Z., Heilige Zeichen, Parthas Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2007 Temin, Christine, Silverpoint's Delicate Power, The Boston Globe, 11/14/85 Walentini, Joseph Susan Schwalb, Abstract Art Online Vol. VI, No. 3 (www.abartonline.com), 12/4/03 Waterman, Jill, Delicate Understandings, ArtsMedia, 6/15- 7/15/00 Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender, Fall, Number 16, 2008
External links Susan Schwalb's website Askart.com - Susan Schwalb Kentler International Drawing Space - Re-inventing Silverpoint - Susan Schwalb