Elfriede Abbe
Woodblock prints
Elfriede Abbe earned a degree in architecture from Cornell University in 1940. Trained as a sculptor and having a special liking for wood sculpture, Elfriede finds wood engraving a natural medium. Her work has received numerous awards. Among these are Gold Medals from New York’s Pen and Brush and National Arts Club, A Tiffany Fellowship, Roy Arthur Hunt Foundation grant, the Barrett-Colea Prize from the National Sculpture Society and the Elliot Liskin Award of the Salmagundi Club. She is also represented in important public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Watson Library and the Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery and the Library of Congress. She has been doing sculpture and printmaking in her Vermont studio since 1974 and is listed in Who’s Who in the World.
"Cutting designs directly in a wood block seems to lend itself to a sense of affinity with objects of nature, landscape and countryside."
This artist lives in Manchester, Vermont
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