Featured Mildred Shulman Painting Info - In Smithsonian?

This is the 2nd painting I bought at a local thrift store yesterday (both for $80) when the manager/friend called me and said he was going by there & did I want to come look around?

I picked it because when I googled her name while at the store I saw something about her work being American art/folk art and in the Smithsonian, but I can't find it now on my laptop at home!

Can anyone yell me anything about her? The brass plate looks like the one on the first painting I got so they probably came from same home.

I was so happy to be looking through junk for treasures again even if it's not a winner after sitting at home these last few weeks it was worth the $40 to get a picker's high again!

Thanks for any info & Be Safe!

 

I found some interesting information that I could actually access without a membership...but none of her work is shown to know if it's the same artist.
https://prabook.com/web/mildred.shulman/773195
She is listed as having worked out of Nebraska mainly, but something else said born in New Jersey. Good luck from here.

 

Sold for 50.00

 

Journey, I think the frame on your piece is VERY interesting....looking hand carved!! I could also be wrong, but.......

 

Looks Mexican.

Debora

 

It didn’t sell. Estimate was $100-$200

 

Mildred was my aunt. She was an artist in NYC. She was most known for her lucite fruit found on many coffee tables in the 1970s and one of her apples is in the Smithsonian. Mildred was able to capture light in the lucite and it looked like dancing fireflies. She was commissioned by Mayor LaGuardia to make these apples which he gave to visiting dignitaries during his term in office. She held many patents for fiber optics, lucite, as well as jewelry making. Quite an accomplishment for a woman who grew up in an orphanage. She owned a lighting store in NYC called Luminere Creations. Her lighting pieces were featured in many home show editions of New York Magazine.

 

I'd like to kerp the frame but I'd be happy to give you her painting if you want it for the family?
No cost except shipping & without frame it shouldn't be more than $30 - $40 (it's still on a smaller wood frame so it will have to be boxed).