Vanitas
Catalogue
- Year
- 1987
- Dimensions
- 38 × 26.5 cm (15 × 10 7/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Martha Mayer Erlebacher
Artist
Painting
Martha Mayer Erlebacher was an American painter. She attended Gettysburg College from 1955 to 1956. She received a BA in Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute. She also received an MFA from Pratt in 1963. She is known for her trompe-l'œil still lifes and well as her representational figurative work of the nude body. She was influenced by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian and French painting traditions and well as by the realist Thomas Eakins.
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Portrait of Jalane Davidson
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Martha Mayer Erlebacher
- Year
- 1987
- Dimensions
- 38 × 26.5 cm (15 × 10 7/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1987-135966
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified