{"id":1476,"date":"2023-02-28T19:28:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T00:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/southsolonmeetinghouse\/?page_id=1476"},"modified":"2023-02-28T19:28:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T00:28:24","slug":"sigmund-abeles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/southsolonmeetinghouse\/sigmund-abeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigmund Abeles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/southsolonmeetinghouse\/files\/2022\/12\/Sigmund-Abeles-Bio-Photo.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Sigmund Abeles, 2013 [https:\/\/www.skowheganart.org\/archives]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sigmund Morton Abeles is a renowned pastel artist, painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He was born in New York City in 1934 but grew up in South Carolina, which inspired his commitment to the Civil Rights movement. His works often convey strong statements, for instance, his&nbsp;Gift of America Series&nbsp;and&nbsp;Vietnam Series, which comment on the United States\u2019 involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s (Bates; Whitney Museum of American Art). Abeles began his artistic education at the University of South Carolina and attended the Art Students League in New York in the summer of 1954. In 1955, he had his first solo exhibition at the Florence Museum of Art (Florence, SC) and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture for two consecutive summers, in 1955 and 1956. While enrolled at the school, in 1956, he was invited to contribute a fresco panel for the South Solon Meeting House. In 1957, he received a master of fine arts from Columbia University. Abeles held teaching positions at institutions such as Boston University School of Fine Arts, Wellesley College, and the University of New Hampshire, from which he retired in 1987. Abeles continues to create full-time in his New York City and upstate New York studios. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, and is a National Academician. His work may be found in many public institutions, including The British Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Colby College Museum of Art.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u2014Robert I. Villani&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-small-font-size\"><li>Bates College; Museum of Art; Print Highlights. \u201cGift of America Series #1, Vietnam War, Woman in Napalm, 1966.\u201d\u00a0<\/li><li>Cummings, Mildred H.\u00a0South Solon: The Story of a Meeting House. South Solon, Maine: South Solon Historical Society, 1959.<\/li><li>McElhinney, James L. \u201cConversation with Artist Sigmund Abeles.\u201d\u00a0Needlewatcher\u00a06 March 2017.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><li>National Academy of Design. \u201cSigmund Abeles.\u201d\u00a0 Sigmund Abeles.\u00a0 The Johnson Collection. \u201cSigmund Abeles (Born 1934).\u201d<\/li><li>Whitney Museum of American Art; Collection\/Works. \u201cSigmund Abeles, Vietnam Series: Helicopters. 1967.\u201d\u00a0 Wikipedia. \u201cSigmund Abeles.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigmund Morton Abeles is a renowned pastel artist, painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He was born in New York City in 1934 but grew up in South Carolina, which inspired his commitment to the Civil Rights movement. His works often convey strong statements, for instance, his&nbsp;Gift of America Series&nbsp;and&nbsp;Vietnam Series, which comment on the United States\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11819,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/southsolonmeetinghouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/southsolonmeetinghouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/southsolonmeetinghouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/southsolonmeetinghouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/southsolonmeetinghouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/southsolonmeetinghouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/southsolonmeetinghouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1476\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/southsolonmeetinghouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}