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, but grew up and was educated in

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. In about 1905, he moved to Paris where he got his first formal training as an artist. He returned to Russia about the time of the start of the first World War and was living in Moscow during the Russian Revolution. He left Russia for good in 1921 and moved first to what was then the British Mandate of Palestine, then to Egypt, and finally to the United States where he lived in Boston, New Orleans, and Honolulu before retiring in Mexico. He was an active portrait painter well into his 70s and many famous people were among his subjects including Justices

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, Hayim Bialik, Ahad Ha-Am,

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, and many more.

References

* http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1928_1929_5_SpecialArticles.pdf * http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=360453 * https://www.flickr.com/photos/magnesmuseum/4709895557/ * https://www.flickr.com/photos/magnesmuseum/4710534768/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Tepper, Joseph Painters from the Russian Empire American portrait painters 20th-century American painters American male painters 1886 births 1977 deaths 20th-century American male artists White Russian emigrants to the United States