Sylvia Plimack Mangold (born September 18, 1938) is an American artist, painter, printmaker, and pastelist.
[1] She is the daughter of Ethel (Rein), an office administrator, and Maurice Plimack, an accountant and businessman.
In the same year she married Yale classmate and fellow painter Robert Mangold.
[citation needed] After studying at Yale with William Bailey and others, Plimack Mangold worked as a representational painter.
In the 1970s, she added trompe-l'œil elements such as metal rulers and masking tape along the borders of the images.