Lynne Drexler

Lynne Drexler (1928–1999) was an American painter known for her abstract expressionist and landscape paintings. Born in Virginia, Drexler completed her art education at Hunter College with Robert Motherwell and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York with Hans Hofmann. Active in the New York art scene in the late 1950s, she gradually developed a unique style by incorporating elements of nature into her abstract compositions. In the late 1960s, Drexler moved to Monhegan, an island in Maine, where she began to produce works filled with more colorful, patterned, and organic forms, inspired by nature and island life. Her long-overlooked works have recently begun to attract renewed interest, and Drexler is now recognized as one of the important female figures in 20th-century American art.