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BiographyZoe 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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Small is Beautiful
2nd Floor Gallery February 6 - April 4, 2025Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present Small is Beautiful, an exhibition of small-scale works by 21 artists, both familiar and new faces to the gallery’s program. The exhibition features...Read more -
Zoe Longfield
Paintings & Works on Paper 1948–1950 March 7 - April 27, 2024Van 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 the...Read more
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Art Basel Miami Beach
Booth G4 December 6 - 8, 2024Van Doren Waxter will present a select group of works that embody expressionism and restraint. The variety of formalist impulses behind this concept will be...Read more -
Independent 20th Century
Booth A5 September 5 - 8, 2024For the 2024 Independent 20th Century, Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present Landscape Figuration, showcasing works by Rosemarie Beck, Zoe Longfield, Vivian Springford, and...Read more -
Independent 20th Century
September 7 - October 10, 2023
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Women Artists Will Star at Independent 20th Century’s New York Fair
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A New Show Gives a Long-Overlooked Abstract Expressionist Her Due
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Unearthing a Treasure Trove of Bay Area Women Abstract Painters
By John Seed, Hyperallergic , September 1, 2022