Neustadt, Barbara. JOYOUS PROCESSION. Etching and aquatint in colors, 1056. Edition of 100, numbered 16/100, titled, signed "B. Neustadt" and dated in pencil. 9 x 12 inches. A lightly creased area in the upper margin, away from the image, else in very good condition. Barbara Neustadt was born in Davenport, IA in 1922. She studied at Smith College, and recived an MA from the University of Chicago. She also studied with Ben Shahn and Arnold Blanch who taught in the artist's colony in Woodstock, New York. In 1952 she moved to New York and worked at Atelier 17 and with Margaret Lowengrund, Bob Blackburn and Michael Ponce de Leon. Barbara Neustadt later lived Maine, and in Woodstock, New York, where she established the Pleiades Press and the Studio Graphic Art Centre. In 1980 she moved to Florida, where she died in 1998. In this and other works, Neustadt clearly shows her association with American Mid-Century modernism. Her prints are in numerous public collections.
