SELECTED DRAWINGS and PAINTINGS
Barbara Rosenthal began formal training in nude figure drawing at the age of 14 in a studio class of eager teens and experienced adults, under the artist Isaac Soyer at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. After two years there, she enrolled at The Art Students' Leage for another two years, then a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University (with Jr Yr Abroad in Rome with Tyler School of Art). Then an MFA at Queens College, under pictorialist Louis Finklestein and colorist Herb Aach.In 1976 she transitrioned to photography and video.

FIGURE DRAWINGS

FIGURATIVE PAINTINGS

ABSTRACT DRAWINGS

ABSTRACT PAINTINGS

 

EARLY CAREER
PAINTING AND DRAWING PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS & REVIEWS

Queens, NY, 1974
The City University of NY / Queens College Student Gallery
solo MFA graduate thesis exhibition of paintings

Seattle, WA, 1973
King and King Gallery solo exhibition of paintings
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, article with image of Gray Arch, above (4'wide x 5'high)

Pittsburgh, PA, 1970
Monte Restaurant, solo exhibition of figure drawings