Sylvia Sleigh, American, Welsh, 1916 to 2010, mixed media painting on paper depicting a portrait of a woman, 1962. Signed and dated 2.10. 62, lower left. Framed. Sylvia Sleigh is known for Figure, genre and portrait painting, feminist issues. Realist feminist painter Sylvia Sleigh emigrated to America in 1961. She was born in Llandudno, Wales in 1916, studying in Sussex, England at the Brighton School of Art. Sylvia Sleigh has had one person exhibitions at Northwestern University; Bennington College, Vermont; Ohio State University, Columbus; University of Rhode Island, Kingston; Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Fordham University, Bronx, New York; G.W. Einstein Company, New York City; New School for School Research; and a show in 1990 that traveled to Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; and Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio. Her painting, A.I.R. Group Portrait, 1978, documents the twenty one women members of the Artist in Residence Gallery in New York City, one of the early feminist cooperative galleries in America. American Fine Art, Female Portrait Oil Paintings, Wall Art, and Collectibles. One of a kind artwork.