Janet Sobel didn’t fit into that myth of powerful hard-drinking painters of big paintings. The attention went elsewhere.” At the very end of her life, in 1966, the art historian William ...

When Janet Sobel created one of the most recognizable artistic styles, drip painting, on scraps of paper, boxes and the backs of envelopes, she was 45 years old, had never taken a single art class ...

But some years before these artists became known for splashing paint and swinging their brushes wildly across their studios, Janet Sobel was carefully dripping paint onto her canvases in an all ...

Put simply, modern art has a problem. Her name is Janet Sobel. Gary Snyder Fine Art NY Janet Sobel only took up painting in later life (Credit: Gary Snyder Fine Art NY) The true story of the birth ...

Janet Sobel (born Jennie Olechovsky) is now slowly gaining recognition as one of the original creators of the “drip painting” technique that many critics have previously associated with Jackson ...

Artist Janet Sobel might not be the household name that other abstract expressionist painters of her era are, such as Jackson Pollock. But she was acclaimed in her time and inspired artists like ...

Janet Sobel at James Barron Art Born in the Ukraine in 1894, Janet Sobel soon made her way to New York, where, decades later, after she raised five children, she took up painting at 43 and ...

Put simply, modern art has a problem. Her name is Janet Sobel. The true story of the birth of both the "drip" technique and so-called "all-over painting" (in which the surface of a work is ...