Amaranth ehrenhalt biography of michael
Amaranth ehrenhalt biography of michael w!
Amaranth ehrenhalt biography of michael
Lost (and Found) Artist Series: Amaranth Ehrenhalt
Articles and Features
By Shira Wolfe
“My first true love is, has, and always will be art.”
Amaranth Ehrenhalt
Artland’s Lost (and Found) Artist Series features artists who were originally omitted from the mainstream art canon or largely overlooked for most of their careers.
This week we shine the light on Amaranth Ehrenhalt, an American second-generation Abstract Expressionist artist who spent most of her career living in Europe and who died of Covid on 16 March
Who Was Amaranth Ehrenhalt?
Amaranth Ehrenhalt was born Roslyn Ehrenhalt (she added the name Amaranth early in her career) on 15 January in Newark and grew up in a Jewish family in Philadelphia.
She loved painting from an early age and was soon placed in the “creatively gifted” Saturday morning program at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She carried on with a full-tuition scholarship at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she graduated in w