16 Facts About Minna Citron

Minna Wright Citron was an American painter and printmaker.

Minna Citron began to study art in 1924 at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the New York School of Applied Design for Women, while married and living in Brooklyn, taking care of her two children.

Minna Citron had her first solo exhibition in 1930 at the New School for Social Research.

Minna Citron's work was influenced by that of artist Honore Daumier.

In 1935, Minna Citron had her first major critically acclaimed solo show titled "Feminanities," at the Midtown Gallery in New York City.

Minna Citron's work includes the oil on canvas murals titled Horse Swapping in the Manchester, Tennessee, post office and TVA Power in the Newport, Tennessee, post office, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, and completed in the early 1940s.

Minna Citron became a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists.

Minna Citron joined Atelier 17, a renowned printmaking school and studio which had been relocated to New York due to World War II.

Minna Citron 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.

Minna Citron's work began to address war issues as her sons were serving overseas.

At age 20, Minna Wright married Henry Citron, a businessman.

Minna Citron had a longtime relationship with lawyer and philanthropist Arthur B Brenner; their shared interest in psychoanalysis was an influence on Citron's work.

Minna Citron died on 21 December 1991, age 95, at Beth Israel Hospital, Manhattan.

Minna Citron's work is in the collection of the Georgia Museum of Art.

Minna Citron's work is included in a traveling exhibition "Prints by Women: Selected European and American Works from the Georgia Museum of Art," organized by the Georgia Museum of Art.

Minna Citron's image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.