Lawrence Kupferman, Untitled

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30X21.25 without the frame. Mixed Media painting and drawing on paper. Lawrence Kupferman had a long and illustrious career as … Read more 30X21.25 without the frame. Mixed Media painting and drawing on paper. Lawrence Kupferman had a long and illustrious career as an artist and educator. His work has been exhibited at such distinguished venues as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Baltimore Museum of Art, among others too numerous to mention. Today, Kupferman's work is in the permanent collections of such institutions as the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Fogg Art Musuem and the Brooklyn Museum among others. Recognition of Kupferman's considerable talent and skill is ongoing, and in 2002 Kupferman's work figured prominently in important museum exhibitions of twentieth century art at the Boston University Art Gallery and at the DeCordova Museum. Kupferman's paintings express his unique view of the neighborhoods and people of Boston during the 1930s and 1940s. This period of Kupferman's life was marked by the completion of his studies at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts School, his subsequent employment in the the Work's Progress Administration from 1937-1940, and the commencement of his teaching career at the Massachusetts College of Art in 1941. He produced both etchings and paintings during this period, and his work was exhibited at the World's Fair (New York, 1939), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1938), the Whitney Museum of American Art (1938, 1946, 1948, 1949), the Art Institute of Chicago (1938), and the Museum of Modern Art (1943). Reviewers have likened Kupferman's painting from the late 1930s and '40s to the work done in Holland and Germany by Max Beckmann, and they compare favorably with work done in the U.S. by Jack Levine and Ben Shahn. Kupferman's Images of Boston are consistently imbued with an artful combination of social commentary, satire, and skillfully expressive energy. They profoundly speak both of the time of their creation and the moment at hand. MUSEUMS that include Lawrence Kupferman in their collection include: Edwin a Ulrich Museum of Art Farnsworth Art Museum The University of Michigan Museum of Art Frederick R Weisman Art Museum Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery The Brooklyn Museum of Art Whitney Museum of American Art Mills College Art Museum San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library of Congress Addison Gallery of American Art Boston Public Library Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Fuller Museum of Art Busch-Reisinger Museum-Harvard University Fogg Art Museum: Harvard University Art Museums The Baltimore Museum of Art The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts Bowdoin College Museum of Art Walker Art Center Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Institute Listed in at least 30 publications including: The Artists Bluebook Davenport's Art Reference Who's Who in American Art The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago The American Painting Collection Three Centuries of New England Art See less