Discipline: Visual Art

Gail Cohen Edelman

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987

Brooklyn-based visual artist Gail Cohen Edelman (1944-2000) was a graduate of Brooklyn College and Pratt Institute and an accomplished artist. She served as a professor of art at Suffolk County Community College from 1972 until her death in 2000.

Studios

Putnam

Gail Cohen Edelman worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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