Hans Hofmann
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Hans Hofmann was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced A
Hans Hofmann, Effervescence, oil, India ink, casein and enamel on plywood panel, 54.375” x 35.875”, 1942.
Hans Hofmann, Pompeii, oil on canvas, 84.25” x 52.25", 1959.
"Open Letter to Roland L. Redmond, President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Hofmann was among a group who would become known as The Irascibles, 18 painters and 10 sculptors who in May 1950 sent an open letter to the Met, rejecting the museum's "monster national exhibition" to be held in December. Francis Henry Taylor, the Met's Director, they said, had "publicly declared his contempt for modern painting," and Robert Beverly Hale, the Associate Curator of American Art, has "accepted a jury notoriously hostile to advanced art."
Robert De Niro Sr.
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Robert Henry De Niro, better known as Robert or Bob De Niro Sr., was an American painter and the father of actor Robert De Niro.
Hans Hofmann
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Robert De Niro, Sr
De Niro Sr.'s Flowers in a Blue Vase, 1966
The De Niro family grave in Kensico Cemetery