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4eternal-life · 6 months
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Abram Molarsky (Jewish /Russian - American, 1880 - 1955)
The Park in Snow, 1934
Private collection
@ Wikimedia Commons
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the-cricket-chirps · 2 months
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Alexander Archipenko
Woman with a Fan
1914
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misespinas · 1 year
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“In Harmony” by Daniel Gerhartz (2016)
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chiauno · 6 months
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Super quick study from a painting by Nicolai Fechin ✏
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snowangelsoul · 2 years
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By Victor Nizovtsev
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portraituresque · 1 year
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Gregory Mortenson Self-Portrait in Russian Hat
Gregory Mortenson (American, born in 1976) is a classical realist painter, known for his captivating portraits of Haitian children.  
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SET SIX - ROUND ONE- MATCH SIX
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"War Pieta" (2007 - Max Ginsburg) / "The Sunset" (1886 - Ivan Aivazovsky)
WAR PIETA: the artist himself said everything- "I wanted to bring attention to the horror of war, and in this case the war in Iraq. i thought of a mother losing her son and the Pieta paintings of the Old Masters and of Michelangelo's sculpture, Pieta, showing the Madonna mourning the death of her son. In my painting I sought to symbolically connect, and contrast, the image of a real mother screaming in anguish over the death of her soldier son with the Old Master images of the Madonna mourning the death of her son in a rather unreal, quiet and serene way. The torn fatigues, the mangled soldier's body and the flag symbolize one of the many young Americans who have been killed in this war. I tried to paint the mother as a woman of forty and yet appear similar in looks, including the shawl, to the classic Madonna of Michelangelo's Pieta. The barren burning oil field wasteland compositionally and symbolically strengthens the concept of blood for oil. Above the black smoke of the burning oil field is an actual gold sky, again to make the connection to the religious paintings of the early Renaissance." i am super bad at articulation so i have highlighted the parts that tear my heart out from my chest (anonymous)
THE SUNSET: [no additional commentary] (anonymous)
("War Pieta" is a 2007 oil on canvas by American painter Max Ginsburg. It measures 50x60 inches (127x152 cm).
"The Sunset" is a 1886 oil on canvas painting done by Russian-Armenian-Ukrainian artist Ivan Aivazovsky. It measures 46x61 cm (18x24 inches).)
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inemi · 9 months
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" He Wasn't So Good At Writing Love Letters But She Read His Letters By Her Soul . He Was Her Best Writer "
Oil On Linen
60 x 30 Inch
Daniel Gerhsrtz
( 1965 )
Is a Figurative Painter born In 1965 In Kewaskum Wisconsin . He studied at the American Academy Of Art in Chicago Illinois . Dan has a Particular Interest and Appreciation from Modern Russian Embrace A Range of Subjects Most Prominently The Female Figure in Either A Pastoral Settings or an Intimate Interior . He is At His Best With Subjects From Everyday Life , Genre Subjects , Scared Idyllic Landscapes Or Figures In Quiet Repose Meditation or Contemplate Isolation ..
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homomenhommes · 4 months
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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY
based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … November 30
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1554 – Sir Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (d.1586); the English courtier and poet was one of the leading lights of Queen Elizabeth's court and a model of Renaissance chivalry. His Apostrophel and Stella is one of the great sonnet sequences in English and was inspired by his love for Penelope Devereaux, even though he later married Frances Walsingham. Lest one confuse Renaissance "love" and "marriage" with the modern versions, it should be pointed out that Penelope Devereaux was 12-years old when Sidney fell in love with her, and that Frances Walsingham was 14 when she was married to the 29-year-old courtier. Marriages were arranged then and not made in heaven, more a real estate transaction than a spiritual love match.
Sidney, himself, was in his teens when the Huguenot writer and diplomat Hubert Languet fell in love with him. Languet was 36 years his senior, lived with him for a time, and, when they parted, wrote passionate letters to him weekly. In his youth, Sidney was strongly attached to two young men, Fulke Greville and Edward Dyer, and wrote love verses to them both, a point not lost on gay John Addington Symonds when he wrote Sidney's biography.
Sidney died in battle at the age of 32. According to the story, while lying wounded he gave his water-bottle to another wounded soldier, saying, "Thy necessity is yet greater than mine". This became possibly the most famous story about Sir Phillip, intended to illustrate his noble character.
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1864 – Died: Major General Patrick (Ronayne) Cleburne (b.1828), who was an Irish American soldier, best known for his service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Born in County Cork, Ireland, Cleburne served in the 41st Regiment of Foot of the British Army after failing to gain entrance into Trinity College of Medicine in 1846. He emigrated to the U.S. three years later. At the beginning of the Civil War, Cleburne sided with the Confederacy. He progressed from being a private soldier in the local militia to a division commander. Cleburne participated in many successful military campaigns, especially the Battle of Stones River and the Battle of Ringgold Gap. His strategic ability gained him the nickname "Stonewall of the West".
According to Randy Shilts ("Conduct Unbecoming"), the Major General might have earned the "Stonewall" appellation for less martial reasons. According to Shilts in his bestselling Conduct Unbecoming the Major General was a 'life-long bachelor' and wrote of the great love of his life:
Cleburne's relationship with his twenty-two year old adjutant, Captain Irving Ashby Buck, drew the notice of the general's colleagues. Cleburne's biographer John Francis Maguire wrote that the general's 'attachment' to Buck 'was a very strong one' and that Buck 'for nearly two years of the war, shared Cleburne's labors during the day and his blankets at night.' Buck himself wrote that the pair were 'close and confidential. I habitually messed with him and shared his tent and often his blankets."
Prior to the campaigning season of 1864, Cleburne became engaged to Susan Tarleton of Mobile, Alabama. Their marriage was never to be, as Cleburne was killed during an ill-conceived assault (which he opposed) on Union fortifications at the Battle of Franklin, just south of Nashville, Tennessee, on November 30, 1864.
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1869 – Konstantin Somov (d.1939) Russian Artist associated with the Mir iskusstva. He was the son of a curator at the Hermitage, and he attended the St Petersburg Academy of Art from 1888 to 1897, studying under the Realist painter Il'ya Repin from 1894. Somov was homosexual, like many of the World of Art members.
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Sleeping Nude
In 1897 and again in 18989 he went to Paris and attended the studios of Filippo Colarossi and of Whistler. Neither the Realism of his Russian teachers nor the evanescent quality of Whistler's art was reflected for long in Somov's work. He turned instead for inspiration to the Old Masters in the Hermitage and to works of contemporary English and German artists, which he knew from visits abroad and from the art journals.
Following the Russian Revolution, he emigrated to the United States, but found the country "absolutely alien to his art" and moved to Paris. He was buried at the Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois Cemetery.
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1874 – Winston Churchill, British prime minister and statesman (d.1965). He was Britain's wartime prime minister whose courageous leadership and defiant rhetoric fortified the English during their long struggle against Hitler's Germany. "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat," he stated upon becoming prime minister at the beginning of the war. He called Hitler's Reich a "monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime." Following the war, he coined the term "Iron Curtain" to describe the barrier between areas in Eastern Europe under Soviet control and the free West.
In his wonderfully entertaining and informative biography of W. Somerset Maugham, Ted Morgan tells how Maugham once asked Churchill whether it was true, as the statesman's mother had claimed, that he had had affairs with other young men in his youth.
"Not true!" Churchill replied. "But I once went to bed with a man to see what it was like."
The man turned out to be musical-comedy star, Ivor Novello.
"And what was it like?" asked Maugham.
"Musical" Churchill replied.
Another famous story goes that when Winston Churchill was Prime Minister, he was woken one freezing February morning by a Downing Street aide bearing the shocking news that a male Tory MP had been caught having sex with a naked guardsman in St James’s Park.
Noting that it had been the coldest night of the winter, Churchill is said to have remarked: "Makes you proud to be British."
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1900 – On this date, Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, wit and raconteur died (b.1854); Prison, after his conviction for "gross indecency," was unkind to Wilde's health and after he was released on May 19, 1897 he spent his last three years penniless, in self-imposed exile from society and artistic circles. He went under the assumed name of Sebastian Melmoth, after the famously "penetrated" Saint Sebastian and the devilish central character of Wilde's great-uncle Charles Robert Maturin's gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer.
Nevertheless, Wilde lost no time in returning to his previous pleasures. According to Lord Alfred Douglas, Robbie Ross "dragged [him] back to homosexual practices" during the summer of 1897, which they spent together in Berneval. After his release, he also wrote the famous poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
Wilde spent his last years in the Hôtel d'Alsace, now known as L'Hôtel, in Paris, where he was notorious and uninhibited about enjoying the pleasures he had been denied in England. Again according to Douglas, "he was hand in glove with all the little boys on the Boulevard. He never attempted to conceal it." In a letter to Ross, Wilde laments, "Today I bade good-bye, with tears and one kiss, to the beautiful Greek boy. . . he is the nicest boy you ever introduced to me."
Just a month before his death he is quoted as saying, "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go." His moods fluctuated; Max Beerbohm relates how, a few days before Wilde's death, their mutual friend Reginald 'Reggie' Turner had found Wilde very depressed after a nightmare. "I dreamt that I had died, and was supping with the dead!" "I am sure," Turner replied, "that you must have been the life and soul of the party." Reggie Turner was one of the very few of the old circle who remained with Wilde right to the end, and was at his bedside when he died. On his deathbed he was received into the Roman Catholic church. Wilde died of cerebral meningitis on November 30, 1900.
Wilde was buried in the Cimitiere de Bagneaux outside Paris but was later moved to Père Lachaise in Paris. His tomb in Père Lachaise was designed by sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, at the request of Robert Ross, who also asked for a small compartment to be made for his own ashes. Ross's ashes were transferred to the tomb in 1950. The numerous spots on it are lipstick traces from admirers.
The modernist angel depicted as a relief on the tomb was originally complete with male genitals. They were broken off as obscene and kept as a paperweight by a succession of Père Lachaise cemetary keepers. Their current whereabouts are unknown. In the summer of 2000, intermedia artist Leon Johnson performed a forty minute ceremony entitled Re-membering Wilde in which a commissioned silver prosthesis was installed to replace the vandalized genitals.
Note: As a general rule, this site does not list persons' death dates - unless their death was something out of the ordinary, a reason for them to be remembered, or because we don't know their date of birth. However, Oscar Wilde desreves special treatment. His name is referenced in this collection of brief biographies far more than any other person. His life, trial, and death had a world-wide effect on gay history.
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1955 – Kevin Conroy was an American actor and voice actor (d.2022). He is best known for his voice role as the DC Comics character Batman on the 1990s Warner Bros. television show Batman: The Animated Series, as well as various other TV series and feature films in the DC animated universe.
Due to the popularity of his performance as Batman, Conroy went on to voice the character for multiple films under the DC Universe Animated Original Movies banner, the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham video games, and in fall 2019 he will play a live action Bruce Wayne in the Arrowverse adaptation of Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Conroy was born in Westbury, New York. Conroy was born into an Irish Catholic family which moved to Westport, Connecticut when he was about 11 years old. He moved to New York City in 1973 when he earned a full scholarship to attend Juilliard's drama division, studying under actor John Houseman. While there, he roomed with Robin Williams, who was in the same group as both Conroy and Kelsey Grammer.
After graduating from Juilliard in 1978, he toured with Houseman's acting group The Acting Company, and the following year he went on the national tour of Ira Levin's Deathtrap.
Filmreference.com listed Conroy as having been married, and having a child, though an interview with The New York Times in 2016 stated that he was single. He also said that he was gay.
In the 2016 interview with The New York Times promoting the animated adaptation of The Killing Joke, Conroy revealed that he was gay. As part of DC Comics' 2022 Pride anthology, Conroy wrote "Finding Batman", a story that recounted his life and experiences as a gay man. It received critical acclaim upon release. He was married to Vaughn C. Williams at the time of his death.
Conroy made an effort to conceal his homosexuality throughout most of his career. He spoke in "Finding Batman" about the discrimination he faced once potential collaborators and employers found out about his homosexuality. Conroy has said that on multiple occasions he had been removed from consideration for acting jobs due to his sexual orientation.
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1995 – The first US. government-sponsored advertising targeting gay men debuts on the eve of World AIDS Day when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention releases a public service television announcement cautioning men to have “smart sex.”
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Today's Gay Wisdom: The wit of Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
There is no sin except stupidity.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
Only the shallow know themselves.
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
A pessimist is one who, when he has a choice of two evils, chooses both.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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creepywrites · 7 months
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Nationalities
Jeff the Killer- Swedish, Italian, Västergötland
Liu- Swedish, Italian, Västergötland
Ben- American, Alaska
Sally Dawn- Canadian, Ontario
Sam Williams- Canadian, American, Texas
Milo the Electrocuted- Italian, Lombardy
Lulu- Vietnamese, Vĩnh Phúc
Clockwork- French, Normandy
Zero- British, American, New Jersey
Jane the killer- American, California
Mary Vaughn- American, welsh
Jesse Richardson- American, Virginia
Jane Arkensaw- British, Lincolnshire
Vailly Evans- Chilean, Los Lagos
Nathan the nobody- American, Alaska
Eyeless Jack- African, Nigeria
Kate the chaser- Australian, American, Georgia
Rouge- Canadian, Alberta
Wilson the basher- welsh, Conwy
X-virus- American, New Jersey
Lazari- Ukrainian, Kharkiv Oblast
Stripes- American, Massachusetts
Kaidy- French, Corsica
Nina the killer- Mexican, American, Louisiana
Puppeteer- American, California
Zachary- American, Colorado
Rosemary- American, Maine
Emra- Italian, American, sicilia
Bloody painter- Japanese, Chinese, Chongqing
Suicide Sadie- British, London
Judge angel- Chinese, Philippines, Bukidnon
Nurse Ann- Taiwanese, taipei
Randy- Spanish, Álava
Sully- Spanish, Álava
Keith- Australian, Queensland
Troy- American, Louisiana
Dollmaker- Russian, Moscow
Svetlana- Russian, Siberia
Vicky genocidal- Canadian, Ontario
Hannah the killer- German, American, East Berlin
Hung iris- American, Illinois
Lifeless Lucy- British, Yorkshire
Legless Eliza- Portuguese, Évora
Mucky Child- American, Colorado
Lacy Morgan- British, American, Arizona
Asylum Nancy- American, Maine
Chris the revenant- German, American, Hessen
Monday child- Ukrainian, poltava
Laughing Jill- British, London
Laughing Jack- British, London
Toby- German, Bavaria
Lurking Lyra- German, Bavaria
Killing Kate-  Costa Rican, Alajuela
Lost Silver- Japanese, Hokkaido
Cata the Killer- Polish, Lodz
Rotten Abigail- American, North Carolina
The Hare- American, Arizona
The Doll- Mexican, Hidalgo
Raven- French, Île-de
Anna schurks- Romanian, Bucharest
Weeping forest- Puerto Rico, Adjuntas
Nightmare Ally- German, East Berlin
Red Death- German, Greek, Saxony
Gas mask maid- El Salvador, Cuscatlan
Tim- American, Georgia
Jessica- American, polish, Arizona
Taylor- Native American, Maine
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laliloon · 7 months
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🗺️Creepypasta Nationality Headcanons:
+ their place of birth
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Jeff the Killer: Salvadoran - La Palma, Chalatenango
Homicidal Lou: Salvadoran - La Palma, Chalatenango
Jane the Killer: Guatemalan-Salvadoran - San Salvador
BEN: American - Boston, Massachusetts
Eyeless Jack: Serbian-American - Augusta, Maine
Nina the Killer: Angolan-Brazilian - Brasilia
Laughing Jack: English - London
Laughing Jill: Scottish - Glasgow
Isaac Clement: English - London
Will Clement: Lithuanian-English - London
Frank the Undead: American - New York City, New York
Jason the Toymaker: French - Narbonne, Occitania
Sally: American - Dallas, Texas
Toby: German - Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg
Clockwork: Croatian - Dubrovnik, Dalmatia
Bloody Painter: Vietnamese - Ho Chi Minh City
Judge Angels: Italian-English - Sandy, Bedfordshire
The Puppeteer: Trinidadian - Chaguanas
Zero: Australian - Brisbane, Queensland
Nurse Ann: South African - Pretoria
The Dollmaker: Russian - St Petersburg
Kagekao: Japanese - Yokohama, Kantō
Candy Pop: Irish - Bonny Glen Woods, Donegal
Slenderman: No distinct nationality or ethnicity- The Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg
Zalgo: No distinct nationality or ethnicity - The Negev Desert
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amore0429 · 3 months
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"Nude in the Bathroom"
(1923) by Russian/American painter, NICOLAI FECHIN (1881-1955).
Oil on canvas
66 × 70 cm
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carolrain · 1 month
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8 questions to get to know me better
Thank you for tagging me, @saraminia
Last song:  I am going to be nice and not do the funny thing. It was, I swear, “Never Gonna Give You Up” because I was explaining the meme to my child. But the song before that was “Eyes of a Painter” by Kate Wolf.
Favourite colour:  Purple
Last film/show:  I dozed through several Russian Doll episodes yesterday, and free advice, it is hard to keep track of what’s going on and where you are in a time loop if you can’t stay awake. I will try again.
Sweet/savoury/spicy:  Why choose? But sweet, always sweet.
Last thing I googled:  The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). I don’t think we need to panic, but folks, if you’re American, contact those representatives.
Last book:  This Sweet Magic by Kit Olmstead (@mostlyinthemorning) and if you do not have your copy yet, why not? Do you hate baking, romance, and good writing?
Relationship status:  This is a silly and empty question and I tire of trying to think of interesting ways to answer. Does anyone care? Are we not adults here? Is this a dating app?
Current obsessions:  The Soulmate Goose of Enforcement (see Schitt’s Creek, RWRB, Goncharov), stocking my freezer with homemade snacks for future me (see baby quiche, blondies, brownies, pepperoni rolls, spinach and feta muffins) and is my little elderly cat doing okay? I worry.
Tagging @mostlyinthemorning @trickiwooao3 @tyfinn @vamprayne @obsessedwithdavrick @queenmabcreates @mammameesh
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I just think they’re pretty.
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Cat tax.
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misespinas · 1 year
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“Reflection” by Daniel Gerhartz
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hyperallergic · 1 year
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After retiring as a women’s tailor and footwear manufacturer in 1935, Morris Hirshfield, a Russian-Polish Jewish immigrant living in NYC, began painting at age 65.
While quickly gaining prominence, even earning a solo retrospective at MoMA in 1943, the self-taught painter was ceaselessly derided by critics for his seemingly naive style.
The work on display in Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered at the American Folk Art Museum in NYC shows the opposite: Hirshfield’s singular vision manifests palpably in exuberant figures and colorful patterns on canvas.
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pwlanier · 10 months
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Picked up a nice etching by American, WPA artist Raphael Soyer (1933-1989) at a garage sale this morning.
Sorry for the poor photograph, it is under glass.
“Protected” was created in an edition of 250 in 1938.
It is in the collection of most major museums including the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Once dubbed the “East Side Degas,” Russian-Jewish émigré and social-realist painter Raphael Soyer depicted ordinary men and women in contemporary settings. While studying at the Art Students League of New York under Guy Pène du Bois, he was influenced by the Ashcan School’s faithful representations of daily life in New York City’s poorer corners. Soyer rejected abstract art, stating, “I choose to be a realist and a humanist in art.” In sympathetic renderings of the unemployed during and after the great economic crash of 1929, many of Soyer’s paintings came to embody the Depression, as in the drawn, weary face and soft eyes that gaze out of Portrait of Walter Broe (1932). Soyer also painted women in large numbers and various forms throughout his career, including nudes, shop-girls, prostitutes, and pedestrians, displaying a love for and fascination with the manifold faces of humanity. WIKI
Moses and Raphael Soyer were identical twin brothers. Born in Russia, they immigrated with their family to America in 1913. They both studied art in New York, and went on to become successful figurative painters. During the 1930s, the brothers became involved with the Works Progress Administration and worked together on several large projects, including a mural for the Kingsessing Station Post Office in Philadelphia. Both Raphael and Moses were influenced by the Depression and painted many realistic scenes that expressed their concern for America’s poor and unemployed citizens. SMITHSONIAN
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