Martha Mayer Erlebacher
Martha Mayer Erlebacher (
November 21, 1937 – June 22, 2013) was an American painter. She attended Gettysburg College from 1955 to 1956. She received a BA in Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute. She also normal an MFA from Pratt in 1963. She is known for her trompe-l'œil still lifes and capably as her representational figurative work of the nude body. She was influenced by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian and French painting traditions and without difficulty as by the realist Thomas Eakins.As a leading American possible artist, she has exhibited her work greater than the subsequently four decades at renowned art galleries in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.