Abraham Harriton, Rare Milk Glass Carved Sculpture Panel Cowboy Indian WPA Artist Americana, c.1940

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This is a carved glass panel. I belive this is milk glass. it is a classic Americana scene of a … Read more This is a carved glass panel. I belive this is milk glass. it is a classic Americana scene of a cowboy or frontier trapper and an Indian or Native American with a feathered headdress.

Abraham Harriton was a Romanian-born Jewish modernist artist and social realism painter in the United States.

Born in 1893 in Bucharest, then the Kingdom of Romania, Harriton studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1908 until 1915. There, he studied under artists such as Kenyon Cox, Emil Carlsen and George DeForest Brush. Harriton himself later become a teacher at the Academy, and, like many other artists during the Great Depression, received commissions from the Works Progress Administration WPA, during the 1930s.
His social realist 1939 mural for the Augusta, Georgia post office Plantation, Transportation, Education, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, is on display at the Augusta Convention and Visitor's Bureau.
During that era, Harrinton had strong ties with the American Left, displaying his works at exhibits put on by the John Reed Club.References
Hemingway, Andrew (2002). Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
"Abraham Harriton papers, 1910-1986". Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
included in the 1938 exhibit Subway Art, The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA NYC, and in the show 31 American Contemporary Artists held at the ACA Gallery, New York, 1959. along with David Burliuk, Nicolai Cikovsky, William Gropper, Robert Gwathmey, Abraham Harriton, Joseph Solman, Moses Soyer, Harry Sternberg, Abram Tromka, Nat Werner, and Charles White.
He showed at Aca Gallery in New York. His works are in major museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Hirshhorn Museum of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. as well as other major museums. See less