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Edna Hibel Signed \" Lemual\" Limited Edition 12x14 Serigraph on paper, numbered and hand signed by Edna Hibel.
Edna Hibel grew up in the Boston area and by the age of 9, she began experimenting with painting in elementary school. Her summers where spent along the shore in Hull, Massachusetts and in Mainr learning about watercolor painting. Hibel received her formal artistic training at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, from 1935-1939. In 1942, she earned the Sturtevant Traveling Fellowship to Mexico.
When Hibel was just 23, the Bostob Museum of fine Arts acquired one of her paintings for their collection making her, at the time, the youngest artist to be purchased by a major American Museum.
Over the course of her 70 year professional career, her work has been shown in prominent museums and galleries in over 20 countries, including museums located in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Russia, and the United States, and under the royal patronage of Count and Countless Bernadotte of Germany, Count Thor Bonde of Sweden, Prince and the late Princess Rainer of Monaco and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England.
Hibel passed away on December 7, 2014 in PA Beach Gardens, Florida just one month short of her 98th birthday.