Hilda Pierce-Rubin “Girl With Red Hair” Oil Painting, Signed Artist Proof

Design Plus Gallery “Girl With Red Hair” Signed Artist Proof by Hilda Pierce-Rubin (Austrian/American b. 1921). The painting is an oil composure of a young woman presented next to a bouquet of blooming red flowers on a table top. The swirling technique the artist used gives movement to what would have been a still life portrait. The art piece is matted in linen, framed in brass trimmed wood. Little visible wear is present and condition is good.

About the Artist :
“Hilda Rubin Pierce was born Hilda Harmel on July 8, 1921, in Vienna, Austria. Her parents owned a successful antique store, and she grew up surrounded by artists. In her memoir, she says that this upbringing made her certain as a child that she was destined to be an artist. She clearly succeeded, but her journey was much more complicated than she probably expected at the time. For her studies, Hilda had to return to Austria. She wrote articles on the experience for Chicago Magazine and Chicago Daily News, discussing how it felt to return. Along with the unsettling memories, she wrote about feeling like and being treated like an American—even though she was in the country of her birth. America had, in the intervening years, become her home. Though the circumstances of Hilda’s immigration to America were the result of Nazi persecution, she was ultimately able to find success as an artist in her new home.