1. Janet Sobel was credited as exhibiting the first instance of all-over painting seen by Clement Greenberg, a notable art critic.
16 Facts About Janet Sobel
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Janet Sobel's career started mid-life, at age forty-five in 1938.
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Janet Sobel was born as Jennie Olechovsky in 1893 in Katerynoslav, Russian Empire.
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In 1908, Sobel moved to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn with her mother, Fannie Kinchuk, a midwife, and her siblings.
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Janet Sobel was already a grandmother when she began painting in 1937.
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Janet Sobel presented her first solo show at Puma Gallery in New York in 1944.
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From 1943 through 1946, Janet Sobel became a powerful presence in the New York art world.
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Janet Sobel exhibited in the 27th Annual at the Brooklyn Museum in 1943.
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Dewey championed Janet Sobel by writing about her in a catalogue statement at the Puma Gallery in New York in 1944.
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Janet Sobel's work is extraordinarily free from inventiveness and from self-consciousness and pretense.
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Janet Sobel used music for inspiration and stimulation of her feelings into her canvas.
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Janet Sobel's painting Milky Way was created in 1945, two years before Jackson Pollock began experimenting with drip painting.
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The art critic Clement Greenberg mentioned that Jackson Pollock had noticed Janet Sobel's painting in the 1940s.
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Janet Sobel consistently described Sobel's work as inferior to that of Pollock by characterizing it as "'primitive'" and that of a "'housewife'".
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Janet Sobel was grouped as inferior due to being a housewife, while other painters could have been dismissed as being mentally inferior in some way.
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Janet Sobel died at her home in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1968.