Sylvia Fein
American painter (1919-2024) · United States · On the map · Artists · Died at 104
Sylvia Fein was an American surrealist painter and author. Inspired by the quattrocento, Fein painted in egg tempera, which she made herself.
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She studied painting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she became part of a group of magical realist painters, including Gertrude Abercrombie, Marshall Glasier, John Wilde, Dudley Huppler, and Karl Priebe. A newspaper described her as "Wisconsin’s Foremost Woman Painter." Beginning in the 1940s, Fein lived for a time in Mexico, then in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, eventually settling in the town of Martinez. Her 100th birthday was marked with an exhibition at her alma mater, The University of California at Berkeley.
