Ida Kohlmeyer American, 1912-1997
Ida Kohlmeyer (1912-1997) was a matriarch among American artists, achieving international acclaim without leaving her native New Orleans. Although she did not begin painting full time until she was in her mid-thirties, Kohlmeyer's work has been represented in well over 100 solo exhibitions, including a major retrospective at the Mint Museum of Art. Her work is in the permanent collections of over 80 institutions including the High Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Ida Kohlmeyer's joyful abstract paintings and sculptures reflect the spirit of New Orleans and her long fascination with folk and primitive art. Based on her own developed alphabet of various organic and geometric shapes, the works transpose Kohlmeyer's passions and delights into compact, colorful and celebratory images.
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American Abstraction
Group Exhibition November 6, 2021 - January 1, 2022Jerald Melberg Gallery presents an exhibition featuring works of American Abstraction. Abstraction firmly took hold in the United States during the mid-twentieth century when the Abstract Expressionist movement emerged in...Read more -
Southern Artists
Group Exhibition November 14, 2020 - January 2, 2021Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present an invitational group exhibition featuring artists with southern connections by birth or residence. The exhibition will feature paintings, sculpture and works on paper of varied context and imagery including both realism and abstraction.Read more -
Ida Kohlmeyer
Paintings and Sculpture January 16 - March 5, 2016Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer became one of the most prominent abstract artists in the South. Influenced by her study with Hans Hofmann and fellow abstractionist Mark Rothko, she changed her style...Read more
