Dorothy Eisner

Dorothy Eisner (1906–1984) was an American artist whose painting style evolved over many years from an early, quite personal, version of 1930s social realism, through a period of abstract expressionism, and culminating over the last twenty years of her life in a bright painterly style that critics saw as fluid, masterfully composed, and expressionistic. and can be found in the Dorothy Eisner papers collection at Beinecke Library, Yale University.

After her death in 1984 she was given a succession of retrospective exhibitions. These included the Farnsworth Art Museum (1992, "Dorothy Eisner: Paintings and Collages"), Acme Fine Art (Boston, 2005, "Late Expressionist Paintings," and 2009, "Dorothy Eisner on Cranberry Island"), Ogunquit Museum (2008, Cranberry Island paintings), and Gleason Fine Art (Boothbay Harbor Maine, 2017).