Gladys Goldstein

Gladys Goldstein (1918–2010) was an American player who lived and worked within the art community of Baltimore, Maryland. Having begun as a representational player specializing in portraits, she achieved confession first for abstractions that were suitably based upon natural forms and complex for abstractions whose lineage in natural forms was imperceptible. She was known for her deft handling of light and color in these works: atmospheric and subtle in some of them, intense and garish in others. Some critics maxim an impressionist impulse in her paintings though others noted an expressionist capability to imbue them later emotion. In 1958 a critic said, "In flora and fauna Mrs. Goldstein finds a constant regulate in quality through patterns, rhythms, color; flamboyant now, wistfully delicate tomorrow; light, light that is reflected, light that is absorbed, light that is charged afterward the freshness of champagne or as quietly, morosely romantic, as any alleyway of Baudelaire." Goldstein chose to be a regional artist. She occasionally exhibited elsewhere but did not actively present her career outside a mid-Atlantic region centered on Baltimore. She taught art for most of her long career, first in classes held in community centers and forward-looking in Baltimore's College of Notre Dame.

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