Katalin Ehling (Born 1941) American, Southwest Inspired Framed Batik. Batik is an ancient technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to a whole cloth, made either by drawing dots and lines of wax with a spouted tool called a canting, or by printing the wax with a copper stamp called a cap, allowing multiple colors to be used. Title: "Market Lady." Depicts an indigenous woman in vibrant robes holding a pot. Signed and dated 1982 bottom left. Label on the back from Suzanne Brown Gallery with further information. 

Overall Size: 39 x 33 in. 

Sight Size: 29 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. 

Katalin Ehling was born in Hungary in 1941, and suffered a difficult childhood disrupted by war and political strife, with her family fleeing to the United States in the late 40s to rebuild their lives. Fascinated by many art forms, she studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Ecole de Dessin de La Mode in Paris before marrying her husband Helmut and moving to Arizona in 1967. There she took courses at Phoenix College, where her love of painting and the resist dying technique called batik flourished and was inspired by the majestic American Southwest. Her work is in permanent collections at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington and the American Indian Arts and Culture Museum in Evanston, Illinois, as well as in many private collections and galleries around the country.

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