Samuel Grunvald, 1930's American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Harlem River Dr, c.1938

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Harlem River Drive, 1938 (fauvist painting of men sitting on a park bench)
image is 6.5 X 7.5 inches.
Provenance: … Read more Harlem River Drive, 1938 (fauvist painting of men sitting on a park bench)
image is 6.5 X 7.5 inches.
Provenance: Greenwich Gallery (Greenwich CT)

Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings.
Arrived in the USA from Hungary in 1921 and settled in New York City where he studied at the Art Students League. Grunvald worked for the Federal Art Project, taught at Colony House in NYC. Member: Art Guild, Watercolor Society, New York Watercolor Club. exhibited at Montross Gallery, NYC, World House Galleries, NYC, Leonard Hutton Gallery, NYC, Associated American Artists Gallery and the A.C.A. Gallery. Gunvald's work spanned many modern American movements from the WPA to Abstract Expressionist painting. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society and the Brooklyn Society of Artists. He exhibited with both of these organizations and at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He was involved the the WPA being a Federal Arts Project artist. A number of prominent Jewish artists participated in this New Deal program among them Ben Shahn, William Gropper, Philip Guston Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Ben Shahn, the Soyers (Isaac, Moses, and Raphael), and many others
Grunwald exhibited alongside other popular artists such as Paul Klee, Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Charles Burchfield. He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC.
His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Jewish Museum, New York.

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A.C.A. Gallery
Associated American Artists Gallery, 1936-1955
American Watercolor Society, 1932-1942
New York Watercolor Club, 1935-1937
Humanist Art Fair, 1935
Montross Gallery, 1933, 1935
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Society of Artists, 1942
Contemporary Arts, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1954-57
UAA Annual Exhibition 1940
Leonard Hutton Gallery, New York 1960
World House Galleries, New York 1959
Florence Wilson Gallery, 1962 See less