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Jane Kaufman, artist who celebrated women's work, dies at 83


Jane Kaufman, artist who celebrated women s work, dies at 83
Jane Kaufman, Embroidered, Beaded Crazy Quilt, 1983-1985, embroidered thread and beads on quilted fabric, 94 × 82 in. (238.76 × 208.28 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Joshua Nefsky.
by Penelope Green
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Jane Kaufman was making minimalist paintings in the early 1970s, spraying automobile paint on huge canvases. To be sure, the paint was sparkly, so the canvases shimmered — “lyrical abstraction” was how one reviewer described her art and that of others doing similar work — but they were firmly of their reductive minimalist moment. Hilton Kramer of The New York Times approved, giving Kaufman a nod as a “new abstractionist” in his mostly dismissive review of the Whitney Biennial in 1973. ....

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