| Name |
Edna HIBEL |
| Birth |
13 Jan 1917 |
Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| _UID |
EF9AC7D4BBEC4FFFB2A6D4ACD2B6479D5D94 |
 Education |
1939 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States [2] |
| Graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts |
| Census |
1940 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States [3] |
12 Colliston Road, owned $9000, same house 1935
1) Harry Plotkin, Head, age 57, m, married, b. Russia, naturalized, 8th grd edu, Merchant, working on own account
2) Ida Plotkin, wife, age 56, f, married,
3) Ralph Plotkin, son, age 24, m, s, b. MA, 4 HS edu, Merchant, working on own account
4) Theodore Plotkins, son, age 22, m, married, b. MA, 4 HS edu, Clerk-sales, Wage/Salary worker in private work, $1500 income
5) Edna Plotkin, dau-in-law, age 22, f,
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| Removed |
Abt 1969 |
, Palm Beach County, Florida, United States [1] |
| Death |
5 Dec 2014 |
Palm Beach Gardens, Palm Beach, Florida, United States [4] |
| Obituary |
7 Dec 2014 |
Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, United States [2] |
| Palm Beach Daily News |
- Posted: 2:38 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014
OBITUARY
Artist Edna Hibel Plotkin dies at 97
By Hannah Winston
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Artist Edna Hibel Plotkin, famous for her Mother and Children series of paintings, died Friday in Palm Beach Gardens.
She was 97, said her son, Andy Plotkin, of Palm Beach Gardens. He said his mother's presence will be missed by many people, but her art and charity touched so many as well.
"She loved to paint people close to the earth," he said. The Hibel Museum of Art, ?founded in 1977 in Palm Beach and now housed on Florida Atlantic University's Jupiter campus, has more than 2,000 original paintings, sculptures and porcelain works.
The museum stayed in Palm Beach until 1999 when the Edna Hibel Art Foundation sold the building at 150 Royal Poinciana Plaza for $1.94 million to the plaza's owners. The museum moved that year to Lake Worth. In June 2002, the museum moved to FAU.
Mrs. Plotkin, who grew up in Boston and raised her children there, made Palm Beach County her home for more than 45 years. She lived and worked in the Singer Island home she shared with her husband, Theodore Plotkin, who died in 2012.
Andy Plotkin said his mother got her start in painting because of a math teacher. Because she was so good at math, she would be done well before the rest of the class, frustrating her teacher. "The teacher told her, 'Wouldn't you like to paint, Edna?'" he said.
The teacher handed her some paper, brushes, watercolor paints and an issue of Good Housekeeping magazine, and she painted a remarkable likeness of the magazine cover.
"She said she must have walked around with a pencil and paintbrush in hand after that," her son said.
Mrs. Plotkin graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1939 and studied in Mexico on a fellowship. When she returned to Boston at the age of 23, she was one of the youngest artists at the time to have a piece of her work bought by a major American museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, her son said.
She traveled the world with her husband and three sons, having her art shown in more than 20 countries across four continents.
Though her paintings and lithography ranged from landscapes to portraits, she is most famous for her Mother and Children paintings, which have been compared with Mary Cassatt's work and other Impressionist art.
She leaves her sons, Andy, Richard and Jon, and their wives, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A memorial will be held in January.
In lieu of flowers, tax-deductible donations may be made to the Edna Hibel Plotkin Endowment Fund and sent to the Hibel Museum of Art, 5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter, FL 33458.
Staff writer David Rogers contributed to this story.
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| Person ID |
I4297 |
Our Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
11 Mar 2020 |
1917 - 2014 (97 years)
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