Sylvia Fein

Sylvia Fein is a surrealist painter and author, born in 1919 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.^[1][2] She studied painting at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she became part of a group of magical realist painters, including Gertrude Abercrombie, Marshall Glasier, John Wilde, Dudley Huppler, and Karl Priebe.^[3][4] Inspired by the quattrocento, Fein paints in egg tempera, which she mixes herself.^[5][6] Fein painted from her teenage years through 1973; she then took a break from painting and wrote two books--Heidi's Horse,^[7] an analysis of the development of her daughter's drawing throughout childhood, and First drawings: genesis of visual thinking,^[8] which is about the basic patterns that appear throughout human art, both historically and during childhood development. Fein began painting again in the early 2000s, and exhibited a selection of both her recent and earlier work in 2014.^[9][10]

Selected exhibitions

• 2014: Krowswork, Oakland, CA^[11][12]
• 2005: With Friends: Six magic realists, 1940–1965, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, 18 June-18 September 2005^[13]

Books

• Heidi's horse (Exelrod Press, 1976) -- illustrated by Heidi Scheuber ^[14]
• "First Drawings: Genesis of Visual Thinking" (Exelrod Press, 1993)^[15]

Notes

1. Art Practical. "Sylvia Fein: Surreal Nature". Retrieved 4 March 2016.
2. Archives of American Art. "Sylvia Fein papers, 1936-2011". Retrieved 4 March 2016.
3. Cozzolino, Robert (2005). With friends: Six magic realists, 1940–1965. ISBN 0932900003.
4. "About Sylvia Fein". Retrieved 4 March 2016.
5. Art Practical. "Sylvia Fein: Surreal Nature". Retrieved 4 March 2016.
6. Archives of American Art. "Sylvia Fein papers, 1936-2011". Retrieved 4 March 2016.
7. Fein, Sylvia (1976). Heidi's Horse. Pleasant Hill, CA: Exelrod Press. p. 159.
8. Fein, Sylvia (1993). First drawings : genesis of visual thinking. Pleasant Hill, CA: Exelrod Press. p. 139. ISBN 0917388046.
9. Art Practical. "Sylvia Fein: Surreal Nature". Retrieved 4 March 2016.
10. Duncan, Michael. "Sylvia Fein". Art in America. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
11. Art Practical. "Sylvia Fein: Surreal Nature". Retrieved 4 March 2016.
12. Duncan, Michael. "Sylvia Fein". Art in America. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
13. Cozzolino, Robert (2005). With friends : six magic realists, 1940-1965. ISBN 0932900003.
14. Fein, Sylvia (1976). Heidi's Horse. Pleasant Hill, CA: Exelrod Press. p. 159.
15. Fein, Sylvia (1993). First drawings : genesis of visual thinking. Pleasant Hill, CA: Exelrod Press. p. 139. ISBN 0917388046.