Martha Mayer Erlebacher

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| name = Martha Mayer Erlebacher

| image = Martha Mayer Erlebacher self portrait 2011.jpg

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| caption = Self Portrait, 2011, Nero pencil on paper

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|11|21}}

| birth_place = Jersey City, New Jersey

| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|6|22|1937|11|21}}

| death_place = Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

| nationality = American

| education = Gettysburg College, Pratt Institute

| field = Painting

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| spouse = Walter S. Erlebacher

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Martha Mayer Erlebacher ({{Birth date|1937|11|21}} – {{death date|2013|6|22}}) was an American painter. She attended Gettysburg College from 1955 to 1956. She received a BA in Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute. She also received an MFA from Pratt in 1963.{{sfn|Plous|1983|pp=54-55}} She is known for her trompe-l'œil still lifes and well as her representational figurative work of the nude body. She was influenced by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian and French painting traditions and well as by the realist Thomas Eakins.{{sfn|Cozzolino|2012|pp=266-267}}

As a leading American realistic artist, she has exhibited her work over the past four decades at renowned art galleries in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.{{Cite web |title=Artists - Marth Mayer Erlebacher (1937-2013) |url=https://www.sullivangoss.com/artists/martha-mayer-erlebacher-1937-2013 |access-date=2020-07-27 |website=Sullivan Goss}}

Erlebacher's work was used on the cover of The Figure: Painting Drawing and Sculpture, Contemporary Perspectives (2014).{{Cite web |last=Seed |first=John |date=30 September 2014 |title=Contemporary Art's Body Language |url=http://hyperallergic.com/152075/contemporary-arts-body-language/ |access-date=23 August 2022 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}

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{{cite web|title=Martha Mayer Erlebacher|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/martha-mayer-erlebacher/biography|publisher=Artnet|access-date=4 March 2016}}

{{cite news|title=Funeral Announcements: Erlebacher, Martha Mayer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15895860/|newspaper= The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=25 June 2013|page=B06|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = 20 December 2017}} {{free access}}

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{{cite book|editor-first=Robert |editor-last=Cozzolino|title=The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World|url={{google books|plainurl=yes|id=bIyqMQEACAAJ|page=266}}|year=2012|publisher=Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts|isbn=978-1-55595-389-8}}
{{cite book|last=Plous|first=Phyllis |title=A Heritage Renewed: Representational Drawing Today|url={{google books|plainurl=yes|id=G5pPAAAAMAAJ|page=54}}|year=1983|publisher=University Art Museum|isbn=978-0-942006-03-2}}

Martha Mayer Erlebacher

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