Perle Fine [SEP] occupation
Perle Fine
Perle Fine (Poule Feine) (1905–1988) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter. Fine was most known by her combination of fluid and brushy rendering of the materials and her use of biomorphic forms encased and intertwined with irregular geometric shapes.
Position as a woman artist.
"... [T]he very image of the Abstract Expressionist painter was a white, heterosexual male, and that this movement, which perceived itself as a glyph of individual freedom, constricted the entry of women, African Americans, and homosexuals
approached her with an offer which is where she taught privately from 1962-73.
Perle Fine stated the following:
In 1965, she developed a severe case of mononucleosis it was then that she took up making wood collages, employing curvilinear forms. Fine went on to win an award at the annual Guild Hall Artist Members' Exhibition in 1978.
"Although the last few years of her life were lost to Alzheimer's disease, she dies fulfilled in her art." Perle Fine died of pneumonia on May