Laura Slobe, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Laura Slobe

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1909

Date of Death: 11-Jan-1958

Profession: cartoonist, sculptor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Laura Slobe

  • Laura Slobe (sometimes credited as Laura Gray) (November 17, 1909 – January 11, 1958) was an American painter, sculptor and cartoonist. Slobe was born in Pittsburgh to a well-to-do Jewish family, and grew up in Chicago, enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at 16; by 19 she was exhibiting paintings and winning prizes.
  • She began exhibiting sculpture as well by the late 1930s, and came eventually to be known more as a sculptor than as a painter.
  • In 1939 and 1940 she worked for the Works Progress Administration, creating art and teaching in a number of states, including Oregon.
  • She became acquainted at this point with George Perle, whom she married in 1940; in 1942 the couple joined the Socialist Workers Party, and she took the pseudonym "Laura Gray".
  • She was soon tasked with assisting in the organization of automotive workers, and it was at this time that she began her cartooning career.
  • Encouraged to submit drawings to The Militant, her first appeared in the paper on March 4, 1944; she went on to become the paper's staff artist, submitting at least one cartoon almost weekly for the rest of her life.
  • These drawings, which have been compared to the work of Boardman Robinson, Hugo Gellert, and Robert Minor, would be published in Trotskyist publications around the world.
  • Some of her cartoons on the subject of civil rights would also be published in the African-American press.Slobe and Perle moved to New York City after World War II, divorcing in 1952 but remaining close.
  • She lived on and off for a time with Duncan Ferguson, and supported herself with a number of odd jobs, devoting less and less of her time to her own art over the years.
  • Always fragile in health – she lived with tuberculosis from early in her life and in 1947 further suffered the removal of a lung – she contracted pneumonia that rapidly turned fatal, killing her at the age of 49.
  • She died in New York City.
  • A sculpture prize was established in her honor at the Art Institute of Chicago after her death, and Perle composed a Quintet for Strings in her memory.Two sculptures by Slobe are in the collection of the Illinois State Museum; they are Vanity, a plaster of c.
  • 1935, and Venus, a plaster of about the same date.
  • A collection of her cartoons for The Militant is owned by the Tamiment Library and Robert F.
  • Wagner Archives at New York University.

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