Gloria Kaplow

Artist and Life-long New Yorker | 1927-2024

Gloria Kaplow was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 1, 1927. A native and lifelong New Yorker, Kaplow was a prolific artist who began painting at a very young age. Throughout her career, Kaplow was known to capture and interpret the world around her through her painter’s eye.  While creating art for almost eight decades, Kaplow explored a range of genres bringing: emotion to portraits, unique light to landscapes, interest to everyday city scenes of NYC life, with her work culminating in powerful abstracts.

Kaplow studied and exhibited at the Art Students League for over 70 years.  While she worked with such notable artists as Knox Martin, Richard Poussette-Dart, William Scharf and Larry Poons, her distinct sense of color and form gave her work great originality. 

She once said: “Painting is an intuitive process. It is not a technical approach; rather each painting dictates its own path through my application of paint and texture.  Along this path I use color to show me the way.  As I go, I connect with the work in front of me until I sense its natural outcome.” 

Her paintings have been exhibited at The Art Students League, the Brooklyn Museum and the Arbor Gallery, with a permanent collection at the African-American Cultural Center in Tokyo, Japan.  Her work is part of several notable private and corporate collections.