Ethel Schwabacher

Ethel Kremer Schwabacher was an American painter and writer. An influential figure in the abstract expressionist movement, she was represented by the Betty Parsons Gallery in the 1950s and 1960s. She was a protégé and the first biographer of Arshile Gorky, and friends with many prominent painters in New York at that time, including Willem de Kooning, Richard Pousette-Dart, Kenzo Okada, and José Guerrero. She was also the author of a monograph on the artist John Charles Ford and a memoir, Hungry for Light.