David Aronson (October 28, 1923 – July 2, 2015) was a painter and Professor of Art at Boston University.

Biography

Aronson was born in

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, Lithuania in 1923 to an Orthodox Jewish family. His father was a

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. He taught at Boston University from 1955 to his death in 2015, where he formed the Fine Art Department. As an artist, he exhibited in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Rome, Berlin and Copenhagen, among others. His work is represented in over forty museums. Aronson's work is associated with the school of Boston Expressionism. Aronson died at the age of 91 on July 2, 2015, from pneumonia and chronic heart failure.Roberts, Sam (July 15, 2015
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Collections

Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 mill ...

* DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Mass. *

Israel Museum The Israel Museum ( he, מוזיאון ישראל, ''Muze'on Yisrael'') is an art and archaeological museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world’s leading encyclopa ...

, Jerusalem * Keene State College, Keene, N.H. * Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York *

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...

* Museum of Modern Art, New York * New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut * National Academy Museum and School, New York *

Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds o ...

, Washington, D.C. * University of New Hampshire Museum of Art, Durham

Awards

* Guggenheim Fellowship - List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1960 * Election as Academician at the National Academy of Design, New York in 1967 * Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Hebrew College, Newton, Massachusetts.

Exhibitions

David Aronson: The Paradox - Danforth Museum of Art

References

Images

Silkscreen in MoMA Collection

"Edmund Burke" bronze relief in the Smithsonian American Art Museum

"Blind Samson" in the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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