biography
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| lived:
| (1898–1969)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Kaunas, C Lithuania. He emigrated to New York City in 1906, and studied painting in night school. In 1922 he visited several art centres in Europe, and came under the influence of Rouault. His 23 satirical gouache paintings on the trial of the Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti (1932), and the 15 paintings of Tom Mooney, the labour leader (1933), earned him the title of ‘the American Hogarth’. He was the first painter to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard (1958). |
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