The Tompkins County Public Library will celebrate the work of illustrator, printer and sculptor Elfriede Abbe with an exhibit in its Avenue of the Friends.
The work, on display through December 31, is curated by Nancy E. Green, the Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at Cornell University. It will feature wood block prints, press books from Abbe's private press, wood sculpture and wood blocks. The work is on-loan from the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and the private collections of Green, Abbe herself and her longtime friend and colleague Jim Tyler.
Abbe was born in Washington, D.C. in 1919 and attended Cornell and Syracuse University. She graduated from Cornell in 1940 with a degree in architecture and worked as an illustrator at Cornell from 1942 until her retirement in 1974. During her tenure, Abbe won many awards included the Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, a gold medal at the National Arts Club, a gold medal at the Academy of Artists Association in Springfield, Massachusetts and the E. Liskin Cash Award at the Salmagundi Club. Following her retirement, Abbe moved to Manchester, Vermont where she lives and continues to work in the house she designed and built.
Abbe's work can be found in collections throughout the world including locally at the Unitarian Church, the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell and the BorgWarner Community Room at TCPL. Her wood block prints are available for purchase at Cornell's Plantations Store and Handwork on State Street.
A reception and talk about the exhibit will be held on Thursday, December 1 from 6:00 to 7:30 PM in the Library's BorgWarner Community Room.
For more information about this or other library exhibits, contact Sally Grubb at sgrubb@tcpl.org.
The work, on display through December 31, is curated by Nancy E. Green, the Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at Cornell University. It will feature wood block prints, press books from Abbe's private press, wood sculpture and wood blocks. The work is on-loan from the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and the private collections of Green, Abbe herself and her longtime friend and colleague Jim Tyler.
Abbe was born in Washington, D.C. in 1919 and attended Cornell and Syracuse University. She graduated from Cornell in 1940 with a degree in architecture and worked as an illustrator at Cornell from 1942 until her retirement in 1974. During her tenure, Abbe won many awards included the Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, a gold medal at the National Arts Club, a gold medal at the Academy of Artists Association in Springfield, Massachusetts and the E. Liskin Cash Award at the Salmagundi Club. Following her retirement, Abbe moved to Manchester, Vermont where she lives and continues to work in the house she designed and built.
Abbe's work can be found in collections throughout the world including locally at the Unitarian Church, the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell and the BorgWarner Community Room at TCPL. Her wood block prints are available for purchase at Cornell's Plantations Store and Handwork on State Street.
A reception and talk about the exhibit will be held on Thursday, December 1 from 6:00 to 7:30 PM in the Library's BorgWarner Community Room.
For more information about this or other library exhibits, contact Sally Grubb at sgrubb@tcpl.org.
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