biography
pronunciation:
[zawrakh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1887–1966)
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| biography:
| Sculptor and painter, born in Eurburick-Kovno, Lithuania. His family emigrated in 1891, and settled in Cleveland, OH, where he was apprenticed to a lithographer. He moved to New York City (1907), attended the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design (1908–9) and, after study in France (1910–11), produced Fauvist style paintings. Based in New York, he focused on sculpture (1922), carving directly in stone and wood, as in ‘Floating Figure’ (1922). He taught at the Art Students League (1929–60), and wrote several books on sculpture. |
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