Esther Gentle (1899 – 1991) was a New York City sculptor, painter, printmaker, and gallery manager. Gentle ran an art reproductions business, Esther Gentle Reproductions, and a New York City art gallery. Her work is part of the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art's permanent collection.A Memoir of Creativity: Abstract Painting, Politics & the...] by Piri Halasz - 2009
Gentle was the first American woman sculptor given a one-person show at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris.
Esther Gentle and Abraham Rattner's papers were donated to the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Personal life She married Abraham Rattner in 1949.Tampa Bay Magazine - Mar-Apr 2009 - Page 50 books.google.com/books?id=D1gEAAAAMBAJ She was the mother of Dr. Allen Leepa.Tampa Bay Magazine - May-Jun 2000 - Page 159 In 1921, prior to her Rattner marriage, she gave birth to twins Herbert (1921-2008) and Bernard Zipkin (1921-2016), by Harry Zipkin, a Brooklyn painter.
Exhibitions
1963 Salon des Indépendants 1988 Ageless Perceptions, SOHO20
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