Janet Sobel

Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art (Washington DC) 2018

In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women in Mexico and the United States, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles) 2012

Approaching Abstraction, American Folk Art Museum (New York) 2010

Beyond the Canon, Robert Miller Gallery (New York) 2009

Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976, Jewish Museum (New York) 2008

Suitcase Paintings: Small Scale Abstract Expressionism, Baruch College (New York) 2008

Pre-Post: American Abstraction, Greenberg Van Doren (New York) 2006

Faces Come Out in the Rain, Gary Snyder Fine Art (New York) 2002

Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960, traveling exhibition, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; 2002, San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego); Walker Art Center (Minneappolis) 2001/02

American Modernism: 1930s & 1940s Abstraction, David Findlay Jr. Inc (New York) 2001

Ukraine Roots, American Visions, Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (Kiev) 2001

Artist's Choice: Elizabeth Murrary: Modern Women, Museum of Modern Art (New York) 1995

Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions - An Introduction to Small Scale Painterly Abstraction in America, 1940-1965, traveling exhibition, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick (New Jersey); Whitney Museum of Art at Phillip Morris (New York); Terra Museum of American Art (Chicago); Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (Coral Gables) 1990

Peggy Guggenheim's Other Legacy, curated by Melvin P. Lader and Fred Licht, traveling exhibition, Peggy Guggenheim (Venice); Solomon R. Guggenheim (New York) 1987

American Women Artists Part I: 20th Century Pioneers, Sidney Janis Gallery (New York) 1984

Recent Acquisitions: Paintings and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art (New York) 1970

Personal Statement: Painting Prophecy, David Porter Gallery (Washington, D.C) 1945

The 140th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia) 1945

Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim Gallery (New York) 1945

Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States, curated by Sidney Janis, Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco) 1944

Gail Levin, "Janet Sobel: Primitivist, Surrealist, and Abstract Expressionist," Woman's Art Journal 26, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2005

Janet Sobel and Gail Levin, Inside Out: Selected Works by Janet Sobel, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, 2003

Roberta Smith, "Art in Review: Janet Sobel," New York Times, February 15, 2002

Deborah A. Goldberg, Janet Sobel, American National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999

Siobhan M. Conaty, Art of This Century: The Women, exhibition catalogue, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1997

Jeffrey Wechsler, Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimension; An Introduction to Small Scale Painterly Abstraction in America, 1940-1965, exhibition catalogue, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, 1989

Peggy Guggenheim, Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict, forward by Gore Vidal, introduction by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Universe Books, New York, 1979

Art of This Century, exhibition catalogue with preface by Sidney Janis, Peggy Guggenheim Gallery, New York, 1946

Janet Sobel, exhibition cataloge with essay by John Dewey, Puma Gallery, New York

EASTERN EUROPEAN ÉMIGRÉ WHOSE DRIP-PAINTERLY BRIGHTON BEACH PRACTICE INSPIRED THE ABSTRACT MAGPIE EYES OF JACKSON POLLOCK, YET WHO RETURNED TO INFORMAL OBSCURITY WITHOUT TRUE RECOGNITION FOR HER AESTHETIC DUE.