Eva Slater

Eva Slater (June 17, 1922 - May 2, 2011), a Hard-Edge artiste was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922 and studied art at the Lette-Verein Academy. After World War II curtains she moved to the United States where she worked as a fashion illustrator in New York City. After meeting her husband, John Slater, they moved to Los Angeles, California where she began studying painting at Art Center School of Design. It was there that she met Lorser Feitelson who founded the Los Angeles-based hard-edge art movement. Slater became a prominent fanatic of the hard-edge endeavor from 1950 through the late 1960s.^{[citation needed]}

Slater's hard-edge paintings are characterized by smooth, meticulously painted surfaces subsequently elegant colors. Her unique contribution to the hard-edge interest was the use of intricate small triangles that would flow across the painting in unusual patterns. She referred to them as visceral much like “cells” which interlocked and helped to clarify the structure of the painting. The triangles concept was by yourself in the prematurely sixties and she went upon to make a little number of pure difficult edge landscapes in the ventilate of large areas of flat color. She stopped painting in the late 1960s and became a scholar and squirrel of American Indian basketry, writing the book Panamint Shoshone Basketry, an American Art Form.

Slater died in Santa Barbara, in 2011.