Idelle Weber

born Chicago, Illinois, 1932; died Los Angeles, California, 2020

BiographyIdelle Weber pursued art while a student at Scripps College and UCLA; her instructors included Millard Sheets and StantonMacdonald-Wright. She moved to New York in 1957 and attended the Art Students League the following year.

By the early 1960s, her work was exhibited widely at venues including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the American Federation of Arts, and the Dwan Gallery. Schaefer began showing her silhouette paintings in 1962; later in the 1960s, Weber began working with Plexiglass to create wall sculptures in three dimensions.

In the 1970s, she shifted her focus to include representational paintings of New York City fruit stands and litter, finding inspiration in detritus. Her work is included in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Harvard Art Museums, and the Brooklyn Museums, among many others.

https://idelleweber.com/

[biography courtesy Hollis Taggart Galleries, accessed 12/28/2016 http://www.hollistaggart.com/artists/idelle-weber

For more on the artist see her obituary in the New York Times at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/arts/idelle-weber-dead.html

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