and group shows. Her work and contribution to American Abstract Expressionism is profiled in American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism, published in 2009 by The New York School Press. Her influences include: Giotto and Cimabue, DaVinci, El Greco, Cezanne, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso, Kandinsky, Gorky, de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock. Ehrenhalt has shown in group exhibitions alongside her contemporaries: Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, Beauford Delaney, Shirley Jaffe, and others. Her work is in collections around the world—from the Time, Inc. building in Chicago, to the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, to the National Foundation of Contemporary Art in Paris, France. In 1962, Pulitzer prize winning poet John Ashbery published a review of Ehrenhalt's work in the International Herald Tribune (Paris, France, 3 October 1962): "A key figure among these 31 artists from 14 different countries might be the American Ehrenhalt, who shows a large canvas with the inviting title, Jump In and Move Around. It is both an excellent example of New York School abstraction (lush colors, fluent brushwork, bustling composition) and an attempt at a new possibly eerie form of figuration. The large flat areas juxtaposed with smaller, detailed ones seem always on the point of resolving themselves into a landscape or a portrait". Her work expands beyond the canvas to include drawings, prints, watercolors, tapestries, mosaics, murals, sculptures, poetry, prose and more. Gallerist Anita Shapolsky wrote: "She is the most multi-talented woman artist that I have ever encountered, producing paintings, sculpture, mosaics, ceramics, watercolors, tapestries, scarves, prints, poetry and writing. Her counterpart would be Picasso, in terms of the amount of creative output and variety." References 20th-century American painters 1928 births 2021 deaths Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in New York (state) 21st-century American painters Artists from Newark, New Jersey Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American women artists American women painters