26 Facts About Perle Fine

One of six children, Perle Fine was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1905, to parents who had recently immigrated from Russia.

Perle Fine became interested in art at a young age.

Perle Fine paid for her studies by working in the school's bursar's office.

In 1945, Perle Fine joined American Abstract Artists, where she found community and support for her artistic ideas.

Perle Fine ran the East River Gallery on East 57th Street from 1936 to 1938, and opened her own gallery in 1940.

In 1946, Perle Fine accepted an offer to work for Karl Nienrendorf, whose gallery was across the street from the Willard Gallery; it was at this gallery that Perle Fine received a subsidy that enabled her to paint full-time.

In 1947, Perle Fine was featured in an issue of The New Iconograph which showcased nonobjective art and theory.

Perle Fine produced thick, heavily painted abstractions using harsh, jagged strokes with a loaded brush.

Perle Fine's focus was the two-dimensional plane: surface, texture and medium.

Perle Fine was one of just 24 out of a total 256 New York School artists who was included in all the Annuals.

Perle Fine went on to win an award at the annual Guild Hall Artist Members' Exhibition in 1978.

Perle Fine was able to evolve using color as its own means of expression.

Perle Fine started playing with act of staining and contrasting levels of translucency along with the use of reduction and of positive and negative space.

Perle Fine's works of this period bear a similarity to those of Mark Rothko, of whom she was a close friend at the time.

The Cool series was created while Perle Fine was living in isolation in the Springs of East Hampton.

Perle Fine's style is set apart by her minimalist tendencies, using colorful line work, planes of color, and distinct sweeping brushstrokes.

Nonetheless, Perle Fine maintained that "I know I was as good as anybody else in there".

The success she had at these exhibitions gave every indication that Perle Fine was on the verge of success in the art world.

Perle Fine always held that the important thing was the painting rather than her being a woman; any adversity she faced only pushed her to become the artist she would be.

Perle Fine battled with the canvas and solved problems in every piece.

Over a career in abstract painting that lasted more than 50 years, Perle Fine continued to innovate and refused to borrow methods from other artists that could potentially allow critics to call her work derivative.

Perle Fine took into consideration the way he developed an order from nature and took control of the canvas; this enabled her to form images in their own space on the canvas.

Perle Fine allowed her knowledge of modern European masters to help inspire her style as she explored the depths of human emotion and energy.

Perle Fine described modern and abstract art as an ability to execute when facing problems.

Perle Fine's brushstrokes tend to display a variety of emotions, from crisp and clean lines to soft and airy strokes.

Perle Fine uses wet on wet paint to create a look of fluidity and draws the paint out to the outer edges; this gives a look of sunlight shining upon grass, with most of the content appearing on the outer edge to give it an environmental atmosphere.