Janet Sobel

1893 1968

American artist (1893-1968)

Janet Sobel, born Jennie Olechovsky, was a Ukrainian-born American Abstract Expressionist painter who pioneered the drip painting technique; her work directly influenced Jackson Pollock. She was credited as exhibiting the first instance of all-over painting seen by Clement Greenberg, a notable art critic. Her career started mid-life, at age forty-five in 1938.

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