Sam Himmelfarb
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Sam Himmelfarb was a Russian-born American artist and commercial exhibit designer, known for his modernist-influenced paintings of everyday people and urban scenes. He also designed the Frank Lloyd Wr
Sam Himmelfarb, Road House, oil on canvas, 29" x 26", 1927
Sam Himmelfarb, Front Row at the Beach, oil on canvas, 24" x 36", 1955
Sam Himmelfarb, Downtown, oil and collage, 40" x 56", 1960
Sam Himmelfarb, Diagonals in Orange and White acrylic on canvas, 48" x 60", 1969
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."