Martha Mayer Erlebacher Explained

Martha Mayer Erlebacher
Birth Date:21 November 1937
Birth Place:Jersey City, New Jersey
Death Place:Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Nationality:American
Education:Gettysburg College, Pratt Institute
Field:Painting
Spouse:Walter S. Erlebacher

Martha Mayer Erlebacher (21 November 1937  -) was an American painter. She attended Gettysburg College from 1955 to 1956. She received a BA in Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute. She also received an MFA from Pratt in 1963. She is known for her trompe-l'œil still lifes and well as her representational figurative work of the nude body. She was influenced by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian and French painting traditions and well as by the realist Thomas Eakins.

As a leading American realistic artist, she has exhibited her work over the past four decades at renowned art galleries in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.[1]

Erlebacher's work was used on the cover of The Figure: Painting Drawing and Sculpture, Contemporary Perspectives (2014).[2]

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  1. Web site: Artists - Marth Mayer Erlebacher (1937-2013) . 2020-07-27 . Sullivan Goss.
  2. Web site: Seed . John . 30 September 2014 . Contemporary Art's Body Language . 23 August 2022 . Hyperallergic . en-US.

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