Rifka Angel (1899–1988) was a Russian-American artist, one of the first encaustic painters in the United States.
Born to Jewish parents in Kalvarija, Russian Empire (now Lithuania), Rifka Angel (née Angelovitch) came to the United States in 1914 to join her father, a recent immigrant.
Angel's first husband, an art student, introduced her to John Sloan, Ernest Fiene, Emil Ganso, and Alfred Maurer.
Rifka Angel studied briefly at the Art Students League of New York with Boardman Robinson and later in Vkhutemas (Moscow, USSR) with David Shterenberg.
After her return to the United States, Angel married her second husband and moved to Chicago in 1929, where their daughter, Blossom Margaret, was born in 1930.