ADDIE HERDER

HERDER--Addie. Widely known as an "artist's artist," the Collagist, Addie Herder died on August 13. Her friends and family will gather in New York for a private celebration of her life and accomplishments on November 4. While many of her contemporaries were filling enormous canvasses with the barest minimum of pictorial adornment, she went her own way creating complex worlds and outlandish machines in spaces often no larger than 12 by 10 inches. The art critic John Russell declared her small spaces and all of the pictorial interests of a Georgione. He wrote in the New York Times: "There is something addictive about the collage constructions of Addie Herder. Once under their spell, we can't see enough of them."