Sonia Gechtoff
1926–
Introduction
Sonia Gechtoff (September 25, 1926 – February 1, 2018) was an American abstract expressionist painter. Her primary medium was painting, but she also created drawings and prints.
Wikidata identifier
Q13560726
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Introduction
Active in the Bay Area Abstract Expressionist movement, Gechtoff was known for producing large-scale gestural works. She was featured in the exhibition “Women in Abstract Expressionism,” at the Denver Art Museum in 2016. She had her first solo show at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in 1957, and had gained national attention in 1954, when her work was exhibited in the Guggenheim's “Younger American Painters,” alongside Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Jackson Pollock.
Country of birth
United States
Roles
Artist, painter
ULAN identifier
500017697
Information from the Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), made available under the ODC Attribution License. Accessed July 21, 2025.
