Nevelson Louise

Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) is one of the preeminent American sculptors of the 20th century. Working at a time when the masculine Abstract Expressionist movement was at its height, she challenged the convention that women could not make powerful large-scale works with her outsized sculptures and assemblages. 
Nevelson was born in Kiev in 1899 and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1905. In 1920, she moved to New York City to pursue a career as an artist. Studying at the Art Students League in New York under Kenneth Hayes Miller and later in Munich under Hans Hoffmann, Nevelson was introduced to Cubism, Surrealism, African, American Indian and Pre-Columbian art, movements and styles that would prove significant influence on her work. The artist's work has shown at galleries and museums since her first solo show at the Nierendorf Gallery in New York in 1941, including her first important museum exhibition Sixteen Americans at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1959, and her first major museum exhibition in 1967 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.