Abstract painter, constructivist sculptor Sylvia Wald was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1915 and was the daughter of Harry F. and Tillie (Weiner) Wald. She studied at the Moore Institute of Art there, but did not graduate, hitchhiking instead to New York City in the late 1930s.
Young and talented, she caught a break when she was only twenty-three, and New York City's ACA Gallery gave her a one-person show in both media after she won their national competition in painting and sculp (showing 500 of 3542 characters). |
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