Fritzie Abadi

Fritzie Abadi (1915 – 2001) was an American painter, sculptor, and collage artist. Born in Aleppo which was subsequently part of the Ottoman Empire.

The daughter of a rabbi, Abadi lived in Palestine until she was nine years old. She after that emigrated to New York City. She won a drawing competition even though attending Bay Ridge High School, and this fostered an early concentration in art. She married at eighteen and moved to Oklahoma City, giving birth to two daughters and "forgot more or less art". In 1945 she returned to Brooklyn, and in 1946 she enrolled in the Art Students League of New York; there she studied below Nahum Tschacbasov.

Her enactment is included in several collections such as the Butler Institute of American Art, the Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, the Slater Memorial Museum, and the Georgia Museum of Art. She has also exhibited in many venues throughout her career.

She has also acknowledged several awards including the Acrylic Painting Award of the National Association of Women Artists (1974) and the Box Assemblage Award from the American Society of Contemporary Artists (1979). She was a fanatic of both institutions, serving upon the board of the former in 1970 and as president of the latter from 1970 to 1972; she was upon the board of the New York Society of Women Artists in 1980, and was afterward a aficionada of Women in the Arts and the Hudson River Contemporary Artists. A small collection of documentary material is owned by the Archives of American Art.