Evelyn Statsinger

{{Infobox artist

| name = Evelyn Statsinger

| birth_date = 1927

| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, United States

| death_date = February 13, 2016

| death_place = Chicago, Illinois, United States

| education = High School of Music & Art, Art Students League, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

| known_for = drawing, painting, sculpture, photogram

| style = Surrealism, Monster Roster

}}

{{short description|American artist}}

Evelyn Statsinger (1927–2016) was a multidisciplinary American artist.{{cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/199001/evelyn-statsinger-60714|title=James Yood on Evelyn Statsinger|website=www.artforum.com|date=8 January 1990 }} Born and raised in Brooklyn, she moved to Chicago in the mid-1940s and remained there for the rest of her life. Statsinger earned her BA in art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 1949 after short stints at the Art Students League and the University of Toledo.{{cite web |last1=Statsinger |first1=Evelyn |title=Oral history interview with Evelyn Statsinger, 2015 May 11-13 |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-evelyn-statsinger-16267#transcript |access-date=28 February 2022 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian}}{{cite web |title=Evelyn Statsinger, The Flower and the Sword |url=https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76450/the-flower-and-the-sword |website=Art Institute of Chicago |access-date=28 February 2022}} While still a student at SAIC she found early success in the Exhibition Momentum salons—a series of exhibitions that took place from 1948 through 1957 and included artist Josef Albers, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and art critic Clement Greenburg, among others, on its three-person jury.{{cite web |title=Art & Design in Chicago: Exhibition Momentum |url=https://interactive.wttw.com/art-design-chicago/exhibition-momentum |website=WTTW |access-date=28 February 2022}} This helped lead to her first solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1952.{{cn|date=August 2023}} Often identified with the Monster Roster group, Statsinger features prominently in exhibitions and publications devoted to art in Chicago. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,{{cite web|url=https://www.whitney.org/artists/17192|title=Evelyn Statsinger|website=www.whitney.org}} the Art Institute of Chicago{{cite web|url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/36779/evelyn-statsinger|title=Evelyn Statsinger|website=The Art Institute of Chicago|date=1927 }} and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.{{cite web|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/evelyn-statsinger-4609|title=Evelyn Statsinger|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum}}