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Rebecca Mahler (American, 1871–?)
At the Library, 1907

Monotype, 4 1/8 x 5 5/8 in.
Collection of The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. Gift of
the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2001.9.160

In the Gallery, n.d.

Monotype, 3 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.
Collection of The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. Gift of
the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2001.9.161

Not much is known about Rebecca Mahler aside from records
that indicate she studied art with Henry Mosler and William
Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art, a private school
founded as the Chase School of Art in 1896. She may have
been a teacher, as she attended Teachers College, Columbia
University. Mahler is also recorded as having had her work
in exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Salons of
America (an independent exhibition organization in New
York), and the National Academy of Design. She is said to have
worked in oil and pastel. These two very strange monotypes
may, in fact, be the only monotypes she made, or at least the
only ones that have survived.
NOTES:
Levy, American Art Annual 1905–1906, 388.

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