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Aaron BohrodRags and Old Iron oil painting by Aaron Bohrodcirca 1966
circa 1966
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Painting measures 16" x 20" and framed 24 ¼" x 28 ¼".
Signed "Aaron Bohrod" lower center.
About this artist: Aaron Bohrod was known for the range of styles from social realism to landscapes, though he is primarily remembered for his unusual trompe l’oeil paintings. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1907 he studied art at both the Art Institute of Chicago and also at the Art Student’s League in New York. He returned to Chicago in 1930 and started a series of work which explored the North Side neighborhoods he had grown up in and was strongly influenced by the social realist painter John Sloan, whom he had met while in New York. Bohrod received a Guggenheim Fellowship that allowed him to travel for a time throughout the country. During WWII he worked as a war artist in the Pacific for the Army Corps of Engineers, and later was assigned by Life magazine to cover the war in Europe.
From 1948-1973 he was the artist in residence at the University of Wisconsin Madison. It was in the 1950s that his style of detailed still life paintings emerged, which was to become his signature style. A mixture of surrealism and trompe l’oeil Bohrod would combine the most unusual objects together to make visual jokes, double entendre or societal statements in his compositions. In 1992 he passed away in Madison, Wisconsin, and was posthumously awarded the Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Creator:Aaron Bohrod (1907 - 1992, American)
- Creation Year:circa 1966
- Dimensions:Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Hudson, NY
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Aaron Bohrod
Aaron Bohrod's work has not been limited to one style or medium. Initially recognized as a regionalist painter of American scenes, particularly of his native Chicago, Bohrod later devoted himself to detailed still-life paintings rendered in the trompe l'oeil style. He also worked for several years in ceramics and wrote a book on pottery. Born in 1907, Bohrod began his studies at Chicago's Crane Junior College in 1925, and two years later enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago. But it was at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1930 to 1932, that he studied under the man believed to be his most significant early influence, John Sloan. Sloan's romantic realism is reflected in the many depictions of Chicago life, which comprised most of Bohrod's early work. Under Sloan's tutelage, Bohrod came to subscribe to the belief that painters should find the subjects of their art in the immediate world around them. These paintings emphasized architecture unique to north Chicago and featured Chicagoans engaged in such everyday activities as working, playing or going to the theatre. The romantic aspect was conveyed by the use of misty colors, and the realism by attention to detail. In 1936, Bohrod won the Guggenheim Fellowship award in creative painting. It enabled him to travel the United States, producing similar regionalist paintings on a much broader range of subjects. Nevertheless, most of his early work centered on Chicago and the urban Midwest. In 1943, Bohrod was commissioned by editors of Life magazine to cover the battlefronts as a war correspondent and artist. Three years later, Bohrod was invited to become the Artist in Residence at the University of Wisconsin, a position that became vacant with the unexpected death of John Steuart Curry. He would remain at the University from 1948 to his retirement in 1973. Then, quite atypically, fantasy started to appear in his work. Elements of Surrealism, supposedly inspired by his concurrent involvement in ceramics with F. Carlton Ball, began influencing his landscapes. By 1953, Bohrod had completely ceased painting landscapes, turning instead to often symbolic still-life subjects. He abandoned his earlier romantic realism to paint in the luminous trompe l'oeil tradition of William Harnett. Bohrod continued to produce these meticulously crafted fantasies exclusively. While in his position at the University of Wisconsin, Bohrod painted covers for Time magazine and authored two books, A Pottery Sketch-book (1959) and A Decade of Still Life (1966), in which are produced many of his trompe l'oeil paintings.
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