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Irving George LehmanModernist Sculpture Figural Portrait Bust Brutalist Wire Work
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This piece is unsigned. Irving Lehman (1900-1983) was an American Jewish painter, sculptor, engraver, and designer. Born in Kiev in then Russia, Lehman studied at the Art Students League, Cooper Union and the National Academy of Art and spent much of his working life in New York City. Part of the Abstract Expressionist school, he worked in oil and watercolor as a painter and in metal and steel as a sculptor; his works have been shown in galleries in England, France, Italy, Israel and Japan, and were included in an international traveling exhibition in Europe in 1951. Like many other artists of his generation, he painted for the WPA and then adopted a more abstract style after WWII.
Lehman spent much of his career in NYC. He had his first exhibition at ACA Gallery in 1934. He also exhibited at the Whitney, National Academy, PAFA, Brooklyn Museum, Chicago Art Institute, and others.
This work contains Constructivist elements anticipating the more gestural abstraction of the post-WWII New York Abstract Expressionist School.
Member of American Art Congress, worked near Woodstock and in Columbia County, NY and visited Rockport, MA & Mexico.
Subjects include Brooklyn Navy Yard, Coney Island, Central Park, Greenwich Village, Camp Lexington in the Catskills and Jewish themes, as well as both Social Realist and Constructivist influenced figures.
Lehman exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago ( AIC ), Brooklyn Museum, National Academy of Design ( NAD ), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA ) Museum of Fine Arts, Bezalel, Israel as well as in Paris, France, Japan and elsewhere.
His oeuvre includes periods of considerable Constructivist, Ecole de Paris, Social Realist, Modernist, Abstract Expressionist, Regionalist, Judaic and Russian interest.
- Creator:Irving George Lehman (1900 - 1983, American)
- Dimensions:Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 15 in (38.1 cm)Depth: 10 in (25.4 cm)
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- Condition:in condition received. could be there is an element loose. Please see photos. it looks great as is. Measurements include base.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38211730152
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