Hedda Sterne
Hedda Sterne
Hedda Sterne was an artist best remembered as the only woman in a famous photograph of a group of Abstract Expressionists known as "The Irascibles" which consisted of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and others. In her artistic endeavors she created a body of work known for exhibiting a stubborn independence from styles and trends, including Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, with which she is often associated...
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth4 August 1910
CountryRomania
Hedda Sterne quotes about
My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.
I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible.
Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.