RIVA HELFOND (1910-2002)Riva Helfond's lithograph, The Dig (also titled The Monster), 1938, is featured in the traveling exhibition Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking. Her monumental printing, Curtain Factory, was in Women March, at the New-York Historical Society, New York City. Riva Helfond was born in Brooklyn, NY. She spent part of her childhood in Russia and returned to New York at the age of eleven. She studied at the Art Students League with Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kantor, and Harry Sternberg. In the early 1930s, under the WPA, she was an instructor at the Harlem Art Center (the master printer, Robert Blackburn, was her student) and worked on the printmaking project. Among her friends were artists Willem DeKooning, and Arshile Gorky, and from the Cedar Tavern, Franz Kline and the critic Harold Rosenberg. In 2009 work by Helfond was featured in Industrial Strength, Precisionism in New Jersey, at the Jersey City Museum. more information
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