Draft:Hedy O'Beil

Henrietta Gersten-Liebowitz (a.k.a. Hedy O'Beil)

Hedy O'Beil (born Henrietta Gersten) is an American modern abstract expressionist (and early modernist geometric abstract) artist painter. Hedy won the Jackson Pollock-Lee Krasner Foundation Award, twice, in a competitive award program including artists from 76 countries around the world. She has been painting since the age of 5 with her brother, Gerry Gersten, who was a famous American caricaturist illustrator cartoonist, who had drawn for the New York Times & Mad（humor）magazine. She has been painting for 85 years. She has shown her work in over 70 art gallery shows (20 individual and over 50 group shows) mostly in New York City and Long Island, during her career. She has been a member of the American Society of Contemporary Artists (ASCA) for many years. In addition to painting all her life, she was an art gallery curator, an art museum and art gallery tour guide and an art lecturer in New York City for over 40 years, educating countless groups of art-minded people about art. She also was an art reviewer/critic for several art magazines, including Arts Magazine, the West Side Beat, and Manhattan Arts.

Born: October 20, 1928 in New York City Died: September 6, 2022. Obituary:

Her mother, Viola Cymberg, was from Sosnnavichi, Poland. Her mother died when Henrietta was 15 years old. Henrietta was brought up by her mother's sister-in-law，Evelyn and her Uncle, David. Henrietta's father was Leo Gersten, a barber who owned a barber shop in the Bronx, New York. Her father was from Barinov, Austria/Poland. Henrietta's older brother, Gerry Gersten , was a famous illustrator/caricaturist. Henrietta is an abstract artist who has been painting since the age of 5. She has shown her work in over 70 art gallery shows (both individual and group shows) during her career.

Selected Solo Exhibits:

2023 Hoyt Art Center museum, New Castle, Pa. 2022 Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pa.

Selected Group Exhibits:

1986 Museum of Modern Art, NYC, February 13 - March 15

Awards & Honors: 2014 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant Award 2009 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2008 American Institute of Arts & Letters 2007 Reger Foundation 2004 The Library of Congress, Prints 1999 Richard Florsheim Art Fund 1997 ASCA Annual Award for Painting 1971 Guild Hall, First Award Long Island Artists 1963 Hofstra University First Award Graphics

Press: 2015 Renee Phillips, “Carter Burden Gallery Empowers Re-Emerging Mature Artists, Art News 2013 Carter Burden Gallery Presents: “18 Artists,” The Villager, March 20 2011 Maureen Mullarkey, “Hedy O’Beil at Gallery 307,” Studio Matters, April 25 2009 American Society of Contemporary Artists magazine, 95th Anniversary book of artists chosen by their peers, “Hedy O’Beil,” p. 53 2007 Ed McCormack, Gallery & Studio “A Passion to Paint - at Westbeth Gallery,” April, p. 9 2007 J. Sanders Eaton, “Creativity: The Artists’ Journey,” Gallery & Studio, Nov. 2006, p. 12 2005 Ed McCormack, Gallery & Studio “Gestural Abstraction” 2004 Gary Shapiro, The New York Sun 2003 Hedy O’Beil, “Helen Levin,” Art News 2001 Hedy O’Beil, “Chelsea – The New Art Scene,” New York Art World, Fall 2001-1985 Who’s Who in American Art 1995 Sheridan Sansegundo, East Hampton Star, “At The Galleries,” April 27 1992 Diana Roberts Manhattan Arts Magazine 1990 Diana Roberts, “Hedy O’Beil,” Manhattan Arts, January, p. 18 1990 E.C. Lipton, “The consisteny strain in art today,” Artspeak, February 1, p. 11 1988 S.K. Flint, “Best of the West Side at Open Studios & Group Exhibits,” Artspeak, Oct. 16, p. 9 1985 Palmer Burno Poroner, Artspeak “Hedy O’Beil” 1982 Elaine Wechsler, Arts Magazine “Hedy O’Beil” 1981 “Scale in the Antique and the Contemporary,” Artspeak, October 1979 Elwood Glaser: Recent Work 1979 William Zimmer, Soho Weekly News, “Hedy O’Beil at the Landmark Gallery” 1979 Robbie Ehrlich, “Hedy O’Beil,” Arts 1978 Carla Sanders, “Hedy O. Beil,” Woman Art, Spring, pp. 39-40 1977 Margaret Pomfret, Arts Magazine 1975 “Artists leaving the suburbs,” New York Times, January 26 1973 “Ms. Liebowitz Paintings at Hecksher,” The Long Islander, p. 3 1973 Sylvia Tennenbaum Arts Magazine 1972 Amei Wallach, The Arts: “On Long Island, a smorgasbord,” Newsday, Oct. 1, Part II, p. 23 1972 Malcolm Preston, Newsday 1972 Clare Nicholas White, “Women reign,” The Long Island Catholic, May 18, p. 5 1972 Clare Nicholas White, “Letting artist speak of himself,” Long Island Catholic, Apr. 13, p. 13 1972 The New York Times “Artists in the Suburbs” 1971 “Artists display art work at museum,” Long Islander 1971 The Long Islander, “Huntington goes to Switzerland,” June 3 1970 Jeanne Paris, Individuality Keynote at Guild Hall, The Long Island Press, May 10, p. 35 1968 Malcolm Preston, “Equally creative women,” Newsday, May 1968 “Lier has meaning,” Long Island Press, November 17 1967 New York Times, “Henrietta Jerome at the Panoras Gallery, October 10-21” 1967 “Mrs. Liebowitz likes herself best as model for her own art,” Long Islander, March 2 1967 Jane Margold, Newsday, March 9 1967 Jeanne Paris, Long Island Press, “Five Canvases,” March 5 1965 Malcolm Preston, Newsday 1965 Jane Margold, Newsday, “O’Beil – She Really Gets into Her Work” 1965 “All American Art,” Pictorial Living, October 31, pp. 10-11 1959 Justin Douglas, “All-American art: A gallery spotlights the work of newcomers,” Journal AMERICAN