Minna Wright Citron was an American

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 painter and printmaker. Her early prints focus on the role of women, sometimes in a satirical manner, in a style known as urban realism.

Minna was born in Newark, New Jersey

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. She became a practicing artist after marrying and having two children. When she was 28 she attended the School of Applied Design for Women and Art Students League of New York

Art Students League of New York

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 (1928–35). In 1934 she divorced and moved to Union Square, New York where she associated with artists including Isabel Bishop

Isabel Bishop

Isabel Bishop was an American painter and graphic artist, who produced numerous paintings and prints of working women in realistic urban settings...

, Reginald Marsh

Reginald Marsh (artist)

Reginald Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear...

 and Raphael Soyer

Raphael Soyer

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. Like Isabel Bishop, Citron created genre scenes of Union Square and was part of the 14th Street School. Her work was also influenced by that of artist Honoré Daumier

Honoré Daumier

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. This group of artists can best be described as urban realists.

She worked as an art teacher and mural artist as a part of the Federal Art Project

Federal Art Project

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 and following World War II

World War II

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 she travelled abroad to Paris

Paris

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. Her later work was more abstract; she developed methods for three dimensional printmaking and assemblage. In the 1970s (when she was in her seventies), she strongly identified with the women's movement because she believed that she had always been a feminist. She continued to work well into her nineties.