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National Serigraph Society
The National Serigraph Society was founded in 1940 by a group of artists involved in the WPA Federal Art Project, including Anthony Velonis, Max Arthur Cohn, and Hyman Warsager. The creation of the society coincided with the rise of serigraphs being used as a medium for fine art. Originally called the ''Silk Screen Group'', the name was soon changed to the ''National Serigraph Society''. The National Serigraph Society had its own gallery, the ''Serigraph Gallery'' at 38 West 57th Street in New York City. They published a quarterly newsletter called the "Serigraph Quarterly." The Society had lectures, published prints, and coordinated traveling shows. In "The Complete Printmaker: Techniques, Traditions, Innovations", the authors wrote that this organization, by 1940, had an active program of "traveling exhibits, lectures, and portfolios of prints (that) helped to sustain and broaden interest in the serigraph. Artists such as Ben Shahn, Mervin Jules, Ruth Gikow, Edward Landon, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Art Project
The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the largest of the New Deal art projects. It was created not as a cultural activity, but as a relief measure to employ artists and artisans to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. The WPA Federal Art Project established more than 100 community art centers throughout the country, researched and documented American design, commissioned a significant body of public art without restriction to content or subject matter, and sustained some 10,000 artists and craft workers during the Great Depression. According to ''American Heritage'', “Something like 400,000 easel paintings, murals, prints, posters, and renderings were produced by WPA artists du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francine Felsenthal
Francine Felsenthal (1922–2000) was an American artist. She also used the name Francine L. Fels. Biography Felsenthal was born in 1922 in Chicago, Illinois. She attended the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a classmate and friend of the painter Joan Mitchell. Felsenthal trained at the Atelier 17. Felsenthal was included in the 1947 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts exhibitions of the National Serigraph Society. Her work was also exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a member of the 10th Street cooperative ''March Gallery''. Her work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco. The permanent collection of the .... Felsenthal died in 2000 References External links images of Felsenthal's workon MutualAr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Kaminsky
Dora Deborah Kaminsky (1909–1977) was an American artist. Early life and education Dora Deborah Kaminsky was born in New York City in 1909. As a child, she attended The Educational Alliance, followed by the Art Students League of New York. She proceeded to study in Europe in the 1930s, including in Vienna, Paris, Stuttgart, and Munich. She made money as an artists' model. Mid-life Kaminsky worked at the Brooklyn Museum for three years as part of the teaching staff. In 1943 she was one of the charter members who organized the National Serigraph Society and remained a member for 13 years. Kaminsky first visited Taos, New Mexico in 1944, spending every other summer before settling there in 1954. She also had a home in Delphi, Greece. She worked in Hawaii for a brief period. Kaminsky was included in the 1947 and 1951 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts exhibitions of the National Serigraph Society. In 1958 Kaminsky married fellow Taos artist Leon Gaspard. After he died in 1964 she serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Johnson (artist)
William Henry Johnson (March 18, 1901 – April 13, 1970) was an American painter. Born in Florence, South Carolina, he became a student at the National Academy of Design in New York City, working with Charles Webster Hawthorne. He later lived and worked in France, where he was exposed to modernism. After Johnson married Danish textile artist Holcha Krake, the couple lived for some time in Scandinavia. There he was influenced by the strong folk art tradition. The couple moved to the United States in 1938. Johnson eventually found work as a teacher at the Harlem Community Art Center, through the Federal Art Project. Johnson's style evolved from realism to expressionism to a powerful folk style, for which he is best known. A substantial collection of his paintings, watercolors, and prints is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which has organized and circulated major exhibitions of his works. Education William Henry Johnson was born March 18, 1901, in Florence, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Huse
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Ernest Hopf
Ernest Hopf (1910 - 1999) was a German-American artist known for his silk screen prints. Biography Hopf was born February 2, 1910 in Germany. In 1935, he married the writer Alice Lightner Hopf with whom he had one child. During the 1930s Hopf was an artist with the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In 1941 Hopf contributed an illustration the Committee for Defense of Public Education publication ''Winter Soldiers: The Story of a Conspiracy Against the Schools''. Profits from the publication were given to the legal defense fund for the Rapp-Coudert Committee victims. Hopf provided one of the six limited-edition prints for the Silk Screen Group's 1943 calendar. Hopf's work was included in the 1940 MoMA exhibition ''American Color Prints Under $10''. He was also included in the 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the National Serigraph Society. Hopf died on July 17, 1999. Hopf's work is in the National Gallery of Art, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Tacoma A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Henkel
August Henkel (1880–1961) was an American artist. He was a Socialist candidate for 4th District of the New York State Assembly from Queens County in 1919, and Communist candidate for the 1st District of the House of Representatives from New York in 1934. He was a member of the Federal Art Project, and worked on a mural at Floyd Bennett Field with Eugene Chodorow. There was a controversy about Joseph Stalin appearing in the mural. In 1940, he refused to sign a loyalty oath A loyalty oath is a pledge of allegiance to an organization, institution, or state of which an individual is a member. In the United States, such an oath has often indicated that the affiant has not been a member of a particular organization or ..., resulting in the destruction of the mural. References External links August Henkel in 1939 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riva Helfond
Riva Helfond (March 8, 1910 – May 13, 2002) was an American artist and printmaker best known for her social realist studies of working people's lives. Early life and education Riva Helfond was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family. She spent some of her childhood in Russia and returned to New York at the age of eleven, living in New York or New Jersey for most of the rest of her life. Between 1928 and 1940, she studied at the School of Industrial Art and the Art Students League; her teachers included William von Schlegell, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Morris Kantor for painting and Harry Sternberg for printmaking. Among her fellow students were Alexander Brook and her future husband, the sculptor William (Bill) Barrett (d. 1967). Teaching Helfond began teaching in the College Art Association Program (1933–36) and then taught printmaking at the Harlem Arts Community Center (1936–38), opened by the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. She was brought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hananiah Harari
Hananiah Harari (August 29, 1912 – July 19, 2000) was an American painter and illustrator. Life Harari was born Richard (Dick) Falk Goldman, in Rochester, New York. He studied at the Syracuse University School of Fine Arts. He went to Paris in the 1930s, where he studied with Fernand Léger from 1932 to 1934; he also studied with Marcel Gromaire and André Lhote. Following a visit to Palestine, he returned to the United States in 1935. He helped found the American Abstract Artists in 1936. Some of his works of this period record his reaction as a Jew to the rise of Fascism in Europe; an example is ''The Dictators'' (1938, oil and collage on canvas; now in the Jewish Museum, New York). His first New York exhibition was in 1939, at Mercury Gallery. He worked in both a semi-abstract style, and a precise realist style; inspired by the work of William Michael Harnett, he painted many ''trompe-l'œil'' still lifes. Several silkscreens from this period are in the Metropolitan Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham P
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic prophets that begins with Adam (see Adam in Islam) and culminates in Muhammad. His life, told in the narrative of the Book of Genesis, revolves around the themes of posterity and land. Abraham is called by God to leave the house of his father Terah and settle in the land of Canaan, which God now promises to Abraham and his progeny. This promise is subsequently inherited by Isaac, Abraham's son by his wife Sarah, while Isaac's half-brother Ishmael is also promised that he will be the founder of a great nation. Abraham purchases a tomb (the Cave of the Patriarchs) at Hebron to be Sarah' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gwathmey
Robert Gwathmey (January 24, 1903 – September 21, 1988) was an American social realist painter. His wife was photographer Rosalie Gwathmey(September 15, 1908 – February 12, 2001) and his son was architect Charles Gwathmey (June 19, 1938 – August 3, 2009). Robert was born to Robert Gwathmey Sr. (1866-1902) and Eva Mortimer Harrison (1868-1941).Kammen, Michael G. "Chapter One." Robert Gwathmey: The Life and Art of a Passionate Observer. Comp. The New York Times on the Web. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1999. N. pag. His half sisters were Kathrine and Ida Carrington. Robert Sr. was killed at work by an explosion and his wife was killed in a vehicular accident. Education Gwathmey attended North Carolina State College in Raleigh, studying business from 1922-1923. He did not think this path would take him anywhere so he got a job on a freighter and later studied a year at the Maryland Institute of Design in Baltimore. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Gurr
Lena Gurr (1897–1992), was an American artist who made paintings, prints, and drawings showing, as one critic said, "the joys and sorrows of everyday life." Another critic noted that her still lifes, city scenes, and depictions of vacation locales were imbued with "quiet humor," while her portrayal of slum-dwellers and the victims of warfare revealed a "ready sympathy" for victims of social injustice at home and of warfare abroad. During the course of her career Gurr's compositions retained emotional content as they evolved from a naturalistic to a semi-abstract cubist style. Discussing this trend, she once told an interviewer that as her work tended toward increasing abstraction she believed it nonetheless "must have some kind of human depth to it." Born into a Russian-Jewish immigrant family, she was the wife of Joseph Biel, also Russian-Jewish and an artist of similar genre and sensibility. Art training Gurr began studying art at a young age. She was a member of the art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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