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Zoe Longfield

Zoe Longfield

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  • Biography
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    Zoe Longfield in her studio, c. 1949. Courtesy Estate of Zoe Longfield
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    Zoe Longfield (1924–2013) was an American abstract expressionist painter in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a participant in the first generation of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism, which occurred in San Francisco in the last half of the 1940s. Zoe Longfield was also one of the earliest women artists working in this movement and is featured, along with her fellow students, in a now well-published photo from the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA) in 1948. During her brief active years, Longfield produced a significant body of paintings, prints, and drawings that showcase both a deft handling of media and a unique visual vocabulary that she employed, in her words, to “solve those inherent problems peculiar to painting.”  Like many women artists of her time, she gave up her own creative ambitions when she married in order to support her husband’s career. She never returned to painting after 1951.
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  • Works
    • abstract painting
      Untitled, 1948
    • abstract painting
      Untitled, 1948
    • abstract painting
      Untitled, 1948
    • Zoe Longfield, Untitled, c. 1948-1949
      Untitled, c. 1948-1949
    • Zoe Longfield, Untitled, c. 1948-1949
      Untitled, c. 1948-1949
    • Zoe Longfield, Untitled, c. 1948-1949
      Untitled, c. 1948-1949
    • Zoe Longfield, Untitled, c. 1949
      Untitled, c. 1949
    • abstract painting
      Untitled, c. 1949
    • Zoe Longfield, Untitled, c. 1949-50
      Untitled, c. 1949-50
    • abstract painting
      Untitled, c. 1949-50
  • Exhibitions
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      Rosemarie Beck, Zoe Longfield, and Hedda Sterne: 1948-1957

      3rd Floor Gallery April 10 - June 27, 2025
      Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present “Rosemarie Beck, Zoe Longfield, and Hedda Sterne: 1948-1957,' an exhibition of earlier works by AbEx women artists the gallery represents. Rosemarie Beck (b....
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    • installation view

      Small is Beautiful

      2nd Floor Gallery February 6 - April 4, 2025
      Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present Small is Beautiful, an exhibition of small-scale works by 22 artists, both familiar and new faces to the gallery’s program. The exhibition features...
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    • Zoe Longfield

      Zoe Longfield

      Paintings & Works on Paper 1948–1950 March 7 - April 27, 2024
      Van Doren Waxter is very pleased to announce Zoe Longfield: Paintings & Works on Paper, 1948-50 , a striking exhibition of sumptuous paintings and works on paper on view at...
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  • News
    • picture of a woman sitting

      Van Doren Waxter represents the Estate of Zoe Longfield

      May 23, 2023
      Van Doren Waxter is delighted to announce exclusive representation of the Estate of Zoe Longfield. A daring and inventive first-generation Bay Area Abstract Expressionist-and one...
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  • Publications
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      Zoe Longfield

      Paintings & Works on Paper 1948–1950 2024
      Paperback, 33 pages
      ISBN: 979-8-9899971-0-7
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  • Art fairs
    • installation view

      Art Basel Miami Beach

      Booth G4 December 6 - 8, 2024
      Van Doren Waxter will present a select group of works that embody expressionism and restraint. The variety of formalist impulses behind this concept will be...
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      Independent 20th Century

      Booth A5 September 5 - 8, 2024
      For the 2024 Independent 20th Century, Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present Landscape Figuration , showcasing works by Rosemarie Beck, Zoe Longfield, Vivian Springford,...
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    • Independent 20th Century

      Independent 20th Century

      September 7 - October 10, 2023
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  • Press
    • Women Artists Will Star at Independent 20th Century’s New York Fair

      Barron's | By Abby Schultz
      September 3, 2024
    • A New Show Gives a Long-Overlooked Abstract Expressionist Her Due

      Artnet News | by Vittoria Benzine
      April 18, 2024
    • Unearthing a Treasure Trove of Bay Area Women Abstract Painters

      By John Seed, Hyperallergic , September 1, 2022

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