Jan Gelb

Jan Gelb (1906-1978), born Jeannette Louise Gelb, was an American artist, lithographer, and educator.

Biography Gelb attended the Yale School of Art, graduating in 1927. Supporting herself as a public school teacher, Gelb moved to New York to continue her art studies at the Art Students League. This technique inspired Gelb to create a series of methods to make textural effects on intaglio plates, including spraying the plates with aerosol cans and scratching at them with sugar and carborundum.

Gelb first exhibited her work at the Provincetown Art Association in 1949.

Gelb's later prints, made in the 1950s until the early 1970s, were abstract and based around her favourite place, the dunes of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Boris Margo, owned a beach shack.

1956 Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings. Whitney Museum of American Art. November 14, 1956 - January 6, 1957.