Edna Hibel

Edna Hibel Plotkin (January 13, 1917 – December 5, 2014) was an American artist. She painted for most of her life. Her work was once held at the Hibel Museum of Art; some of it now resides at Beloit College in Wisconsin.

Early life and education Edna Hibel Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland. She began to study watercolors when she was nine years old. According to her son, Hibel began painting after she finished her math schoolwork early. Hibel graduated from Brookline High School and enrolled at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, which she graduated from in 1939. She started working on lithographs in 1966.

Author W. David Marx, in his 2022 book Status and Culture, lamented that "at the moment of this writing, there is no Wikipedia page for Edna Hibel, nor does her name appear in standard volumes on art history." Marx argued that Hibel was categorized as a "creator", not an "artist", because of a lack of institutional acceptance from the art world.