Ada Vorhaus Gabriel (1898 – 1975)

Untitled, c. 1940s, oil on Masonite, signed lower right, 19 ¾ x 25 ¾ inches

$4750

Ava Vorhaus Gabriel was a New York-based painter, lithographer, and designer. Born in Larchmont, Gabriel studied art at Barnard College, the New York School of Design, and with Erich Gletter in Munich and Emil Ganso in New York. In addition to her fine art practice, Gabriel worked as a commercial illustrator specializing in cover design. From the 1930s through the 1950s, she exhibited widely, including at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Salons of America, the National Academy of Design, the New York Art Alliance, the LDM Sweat Memorial Museum, and the National Association of Women Artists, where she was a prize winner. She was represented by the Allison Gallery in New York where she had solo exhibitions in 1944 and 1956. Gabriel was honored by the National Academy of Arts & Letters in 1950 and 1954. Her art is in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Newfields. Gabriel is listed in Who was Who in American Art and other standard references.