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Shirley Jaffe

1923 - 2016

USA

Born in 1923 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States. Died in 2016 in Louveciennes, France.

Shirley Jaffe was an American artist, known for her abstract paintings. Initially associated with the second generation of Abstract Expressionists, she developed a distinctive style in the 1970s marked by geometric compositions in vivid colors. Her work is characterized by a unique language of forms with precise contours, painted in solid color fields, which she refined throughout her career in Paris, where she settled in 1949.

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