Barbara Neustadt

Barbara Neustadt was an American painter and printmaker born in Davenport, Iowa. She also went by the aliases Barbara Walbridge and Barbara Meyer.

Neustadt received her B.A. from Smith College and her M.A. from the University of Chicago. She took further classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and the School of Fine Arts in Athens, Ohio, and studied lithography at the Woodstock Art Students League. It was in Woodstock that she met artists such as Ben Shahn and Arnold Blanch.

Neustadt worked at Atelier 17 in New York City for a time, alongside such artists as Bob Blackburn, Michael Ponce de Leon and Margaret Lowengrund. Perhaps inspired Atelier 17’s inclusion and fostering of women artists in the Modernism movement, she later moved back to Woodstock and established her own printmaking studio, Pleiades Press, to support young artists. At the time Modernist women were often snubbed and overlooked in favor of their male counterparts.