Judith Rothschild

Judith Rothschild (September 4, 1921 – March 6, 1993) was an American abstract painter and collagist, best known for the collage-like relief paintings she created late in her career. Influenced by European abstract masters, including Piet Mondrian and Henri Matisse, she worked in a style that achieved, in the words of art critic and curator E.C. Goossen, a "bold juxtaposition of the realistic and the abstract".

Rothschild studied with Hans Hofmann and other prominent American artists. In a career spanning the late 1940s to the early 1990s, she exhibited frequently in solo and group shows in the United States and abroad. Her work is held in the collections of major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Harvard Art Museums.

At her death, Rothschild owned a collection of works said to be "one of the finest privately held collections of 20th-century painting and sculpture in this country". Her will established a foundation to use the sale of these works for the benefit of the underappreciated artists of her generation.