Elias M. Grossman "Beatrice" Hand Signed Dry Point Etching Framed, 1936

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Vintage Dry Point Etching Art Print by Jewish-American artist Elias M. Grossman. Hand signed in pencil by the artist. Also … Read more Vintage Dry Point Etching Art Print by Jewish-American artist Elias M. Grossman. Hand signed in pencil by the artist. Also plate signed with title and date. Framed Size: 18-1/4" x 16-1/2", Image Size: 8" x 6". Dated: May 6, 1936. 100 percent guarantee of authenticity. Condition of the artwork is: Great. Some signs of aging in the yellowing of the paper. Frame is newer, acid free, professionally done. Offers considered.

Elias M. Grossman, the Jewish-American artist who today holds a very important place in American art as a painter and engraver, the son of Kobrin, close to Bialystok, who has now received the Washington Art Museum prize for his painting, the “Western Wall,” belonged to those who undertook that road.

In America Elias Grossman arrived as a son of an immigrant at the age of thirteen, his father immigrated to America years before but did not amass a large fortune and the young Grossman had to undertake hard work when he was still a youngster. After he finished his public school and high school, he started working as a hat maker. But it seemed it was not destined that the poor immigrant youth would lose his days in the miserable shop because from an early age he was attracted to painting and after his hours of studies in the east-side school he would roam around in the nearby avenue and paint old people and plain Jews who sat there and spoke about politics. See less