Edith Dines

Edith Dines, American, 1924-1995. A 1950s oil on canvas figural abstract, titled "The Strange and the Familiar". Signed "Edith Dines" and dated "1954" upper left, titled and annotated with artist's Ann Arbor address (also the address of her then husband, Gerome Kamrowski) verso. Stretcher with partial Betty Parsons New York Gallery label and id number “54” attached to canvas verso. Image 36 x 48" high, in artist painted wooden frame 37 1/4 x 49 1/4" high overall.

Dines utilized rolling pins wrapped with textured rubber forms that were inked or applied with oil to roll the pigments on surfaces and create abstract compositions. Her work was exhibited in the 1952 Detroit Artists Market "Abstract Art is Reality" show organized by legendary Futurist collector Lydia Winston Malbin, who along with Hilla Rebay, the co-founder of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (originally the Museum of Non-Objective Art) in New York, had developed the exhibition of abstract art in Detroit a decade earlier. Dines married the artist and the pioneer in the American Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist movements Gerome Kamrowski (1914-2004) in 1948 (the couple divorced in 1962), while Kamrowski was a professor of fine art at the University of Michigan. The famous Betty Parsons Gallery held an exhibition for the work of Gerome Kamrowski the same year they were married (1948). The Ann Arbor News published a photographically illustrated profile of Dines work on July 29, 1954. Dines exhibited in the U.S. and Europe during the 1950s and 1960s.