Sylvia Fein

Sylvia Doris (Scheuber) Fein is an American surrealist painter and author, born November 20, 1919, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She studied painting at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she became part of a group of magical realist painters, including Gertrude Abercrombie, Marshall Glasier, John Wilde, Dudley Huppler, and Karl Priebe. During this time, newspapers described Fein as “Wisconsin’s Foremost Woman Painter.” Inspired by the quattrocento, Fein paints in egg tempera, which she mixes herself by puncturing the yolk and mixing the drainage with an equal amount of water. While her paintings were always informed by Surrealism, Fein turned her back on narrative fantasies to focus on studies of the natural and mystical world. Read more from Wikipedia →