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256:, and began experimenting with new styles and innovative techniques. During her time at Atelier 17, she pioneered new methods of three-dimensional printmaking and assemblage. She also began to embrace chance, spontaneity, and mistakes in her work and relying on improvisation or automatism, a method consistent with the work of other artists at Atelier 17 and perhaps influenced by Citron's interest in Freudian psychoanalysis and the unconscious, which she had become familiar with in the 1920s. Her work began to address war issues as her sons were serving overseas. Soon after 279:. In the 1970s (when she was in her seventies), she strongly identified with the women's movement and considered herself a feminist at heart, although she was never directly involved with organized feminist movements or protests. During the 1970s and 1980s, Citron continued to produce prints, alternating between abstract and representational styles. She continued to work well into her nineties. In 1985, she received the 186:
In 1935, Citron had her first major critically acclaimed solo show titled "Feminanities," at the Midtown Gallery in New York City. The work in this show addressed issues of gender and sexism in a satirical light; in these pieces, Citron not only criticized men for the subordination of women, but also
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At age 20, Minna Wright married Henry Citron, a businessman. Together they moved to Brooklyn, where they had two sons, Casper and Thomas, before their divorce in 1934. She had a longtime relationship with lawyer and philanthropist Arthur B. Brenner; their shared interest in
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A traveling exhibition of her work, titled "Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course From Realism to Abstraction," was organized by the Juniata College Museum of Art in Huntingdon, PA and the artist's granddaughter. It appeared at
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in February 2015. Citron's work is also included in a traveling exhibition "Prints by Women: Selected European and American Works from the Georgia Museum of Art," organized by the
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where she was respected as a teacher who introduced her students to all the possible means of expression from realism to the current avant-garde abstract expressionists.
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Syracuse University Art Galleries, "Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course From Realism to Abstraction," February 5-March 15, 2015.
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Texas A&M University Calendar, "Minna Citron: The Uncharted Course From Realism To Abstraction," May 7-August 25, 2013.
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Georgia Museum of Art, "Georgia Museum of Art to Exhibit Works by Minna Citron," press release (October 11, 2012).
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Minna Citron died on 21 December 1991, age 95, at Beth Israel Hospital, Manhattan. Her papers are at
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Streb, Jennifer L. (2012). "Minna Citron's "Feminanities": Her Commentary on the Culture of Vanity".
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Manhattan, Kansas: The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 2006.
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In the early 1940s, Citron's work shifted towards a more abstract style. She joined
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held women accountable for their own complicity in a sexist society. Pieces such as
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As a young mother, she attended the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science, the
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National Women's Caucus for Art Conference, Los Angeles, February 12-16, 1985.
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National Women's Caucus for Art Conference, Los Angeles, February 12-16, 1985.
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Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910-1960.
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Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910-1960
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Paths to the Press: Printmaking and American Women Artists, 1910-1960
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was the first time an American artist had mounted such a show in
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American Women Artists: From Early Indian Times to Present
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Minna Citron works in the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century
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Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics
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Syracuse University Libraries, Minna Citron Papers.
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Painting
Newark, New Jersey
New York School of Applied Design for Women
John Sloan
Kenneth Hayes Miller
New York School of Applied Design for Women
Art Students League of New York
John Sloan
Harry Sternberg
Kimon NicolaĂŻdes
Kenneth Hayes Miller
New School for Social Research
Isabel Bishop
Reginald Marsh
Raphael Soyer
Honoré Daumier
Works Progress Administration
Federal Art Project
Manchester, Tennessee
Newport, Tennessee
Treasury Section of Fine Arts
Pratt Institute
Society of American Graphic Artists
Atelier 17
Marc Chagall
André Masson
Jacques Lipchitz
World War II
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