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Biography |
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1904 |
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born : Wolow, Austria (now Poland) to Lea Sperber and Moses Gross, a lumber merchant |
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1917 |
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apprenticed to a jeweler; begins sketching |
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1919 - 1920 |
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takes evening classes at a free art academy, Budapest visits the Budapest Museum where he sees the work of Pieter Brueghl the Elder, El Greco, and Marc Chagall. |
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1921 |
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deported by the Communist Right and imprisoned upon his return to Poland, Studies at Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts), Vienna, Austria |
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1922 |
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emigrates to New York with his brother, evening classes , Educational Alliance Art School, New York, NY (here he meets Abbo Ostrowsky, Philip Evergood, Peter Blume, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Saul Baizerman and Raphael Soyer); Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, Paris, France: sculpture and drawing courses with Elie Nadelman |
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1926 - 1930 |
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summers at artist colonies in Woodstock, NY and Provincetown, RI, studies carving with Robert Laurent at the Art Student's League, New York, NY, opens small studio, E. 11th Street, New York, NY |
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1942 |
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Purchase Prize, “Artists for Victory” exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
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1927 - 1987 |
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taught sculpture at the Educational Alliance School, New York, NY |
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1991 |
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Died: Provincetown, MA |
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Exhibitions |
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1974 |
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National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington (solo) |
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1971 |
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Medici II Gallery, Miami Beach (solo) |
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1964 |
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New York World's Fair |
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1961 |
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Drawings by Sculptors, Smithsonian Institution, 1961-1963 |
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1959 |
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“Four American Expressionists”(exhibition), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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1946 |
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Detroit Institute of Arts |
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1943 |
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |
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1942 |
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Purchase Prize, “Artists for Victory” exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
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1940 |
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NY World's Fair: commissioned four-figure plaster monument, "Harvest", for the courtyard of the France Overseas building; carved work, acquired by Brooklyn Museum of Art after the close of the fair |
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1940 |
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Brooklyn Museum |
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1940 |
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Museum of Modern Art |
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1938 |
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Art Institute of Chicago |
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1937 |
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commissioned limestone bas-relief, ”Riveters” Federal Trade Commission Building, Washington, DC |
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1935 |
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Boyer Gallery(solo exhibition), Philadelphia, PA |
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1934 |
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Sculpture commission,( by US Treasury Dept) for Post Office Department Building, Washington, DC |
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1932 |
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first solo exhibition, Gallery 144, Greenwich Village, New York |
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1926 |
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Independent Student's Gallery(group exhibition), New York, NY |
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