Joseph Solman Art
American, 1909-1908
Brought to America from Russia as a child in 1912, Joseph Solman was a prodigious draftsman and knew, in his earliest teens, that he would be an artist. He went straight from high school to the National Academy of Design, though he says he learned more by sketching in the subway on the way back from school late at night: people “pose perfectly when they’re asleep.” In 1929, Solman saw the inaugural show at the Museum of Modern Art featuring Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Cezanne. It changed his life – and his art. Joseph Solman was, with Mark Rothko, the unofficial co-leader of The Ten, a group of expressionist painters who exhibited as the “Whitney Dissenters” at the Mercury Galleries in New York in 1938. A champion of modernism, Solman was elected an editor of Art Front Magazine when its other editors, art historian Meyer Shapiro and critic Harold Rosenberg, were still partial to Social Realism In 1964, The Times, discussing his well-known subway gouaches (done while commuting to his some-time job as a racetrack pari-mutuel clerk), called him a “Pari-Mutuel Picasso.” In 1985, on the occasion of a 50-year retrospective, The Washington Post wrote: “It appears to have dawned, at last, on many collectors that this is art that has already stood the acid test of time.” We had the pleasure of the meeting the artist a few times at his home which was over the original Second Avenue Deli in the East Village.to
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John Begg Jr., Expressionist Oil Painting on Masonite by Joseph Solman
By Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
In the mid-1960s Joseph Solman (American, 1909 - 2008) was commissioned to create portraits of the Begg family. This is a portrait of John Begg Jr., the son of the mid-century nuclear family...
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1960s Expressionist Joseph Solman Art
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Masonite, Oil
Monotype Print Painting Garden Scene Table Chair Joseph Solman American Art WPA
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
Monotype Painting Title: Table and Chairs, 1980
Medium: monotype or monoprint painting
Size: image 13 x 9.5,overall with frame 23 x 20
Hand signed and dated lower right
Provenance...
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20th Century Modern Joseph Solman Art
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Monotype
Old Fire Wagon, Monotype
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Solman (1909-2008), a New York expressionist painter, hovered near the leading edge of the avant garde through most of his career, yet his works never departed entirely from r...
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20th Century Modern Joseph Solman Art
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Monotype
John Begg Sr., Expressionist Portrait by Joseph Solman
By Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
In the mid-1960s Joseph Solman (American, 1909 - 2008) was commissioned to create portraits of the Begg family. This is a portrait of John Begg Sr., the patriarch of the mid-century ...
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1960s Expressionist Joseph Solman Art
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Oil, Canvas
"Portrait of a Woman, Seated" by Joseph Solman
By Joseph Solman
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Oil on canvas, signed with initials center left. Measures 32" x 23.5" including the frame.
Provenance:
ACA Galleries, NYC
Bradbury Art and Antiques, Wiscasset, Maine
Brought to Am...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Joseph Solman Art
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Paint
Portrait of a Seated Woman
By Joseph Solman
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed with initials center left. Measures 32" x 23.5" including the frame.
Provenance: ACA Galleries, NYC
Bradbury Art and Antiques, Wiscasset, Maine
Brought to...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Joseph Solman Art
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Oil
"Figure Study" Joseph Solman, Blue and Sepia, Pastel Colors Seated Study
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Solman
Figure Study, circa 1959-60
Signed with initials lower left
Gouache on Racing Form newspaper
Sight 9 x 7 inches
Provenance
Private Collection, Montecito, California
Pr...
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1950s Modern Joseph Solman Art
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Paper, Gouache, Newsprint
The Red Beard
By Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joseph Solman, American (1909 - 2008)
Title: The Red Beard
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 20.25 x 12 inches
Frame Size: 30 x 22 inches
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1960s Color-Field Joseph Solman Art
Materials
Oil
$35,000
American Abstract Color Monotype Painting Tar Cart #2 Joseph Solman WPA Artist
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
"Tar Cart #2" by Joseph Solman (American, 1909-2008)
Hand signed recto
Joseph Solman (January 25, 1909 – April 16, 2008) was a Jewish American painter, a founder of The Ten, a group...
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20th Century American Modern Joseph Solman Art
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Monotype
Oil Painting Interior Scene Chair w Chinese Rug Joseph Solman American Art WPA
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Solman (1909-2008),
Chair with Chinese Rug,
oil paint on masonite, initialed JS on recto, titled and signed "J.S." verso,
Dimensions 14" x 10" Framed to 21 X 17
Provenance...
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20th Century Modern Joseph Solman Art
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Oil, Board
Studio Interior Mid 20th Century American Scene Modern WPA Still Life Realism
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
Studio Interior Scene Mid 20th Century American Modern WPA Still Life Realism
The painting measures 10 x 12 inches. Framed, the work is 13 1/4 x 15 1/...
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1930s American Realist Joseph Solman Art
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Oil, Board
"Garage in Provincetown" Joseph Solman, Urban Landscape by Expressionist Artist
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Solman
Garage in Provincetown
Signed with initials lower right
Graphite on paper
8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches
Joseph Solman was born in 1909 in Vitebsk, in what is now Belarus, the...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Joseph Solman Art
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Monhegan Cove, Impressionist Gouache Painting by Joseph Solman 1937
By Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joseph Solman, American (1909 - )
Title: Monhegan Cove
Year: 1937
Medium: Gouache on black paper, signed and dated l.c.
Size: 8.5 x 12 inches
Frame Size: 18 x 22 inches
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1930s Color-Field Joseph Solman Art
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Gouache
1936 Woodblock Print Venus of 23rd St. Skid Row Woodcut NYC Great Depression WPA
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
A great New york City street scene in a modernist realist style. done in the the great depression period.
Mat is 17.5x14, sheet measures 13x10 image is 10x4.75
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Provincetown Dock, Modern Gouache Painting by Joseph Solman 1962
By Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joseph Solman, American (1909 - )
Title: Provincetown Dock
Year: 1962
Medium: Gouache on black paper, signed and dated l.c.
Size: 9 x 11.5 inches
Frame Size: 19 x 22 inches
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1960s Color-Field Joseph Solman Art
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Marian Begg, Expressionist Oil on Masonite Portrait Painting by Joseph Solman
By Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
In the mid-1960s Joseph Solman (American, 1909 - 2008) was commissioned to create portraits of the Begg family. This is a portrait of Marian Begg, the mother in the mid-century nuclear family...
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1960s Expressionist Joseph Solman Art
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Oil, Masonite
"Rail Yard" Urban Industrial WPA American Scene Drawing NYC Mid-Century
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
"Rail Yard" Urban Industrial WPA American Scene Drawing NYC Mid-Century. Initialed "JS" upper right
Solman was a pivotal figure in the development of 20th century American art. He ...
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1930s American Modern Joseph Solman Art
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Paper, Gouache
WPA American Scene Modernism 20th Century NYC Industrial "Cellar with Horseshoe"
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
"Cellar with Horseshoe" WPA American Scene Modernism 20th Century NYC Industrial
Joseph Solman (1909-2008) "Cellar with Horseshoe," 16 x 20 inches, oil on canvas
circa 1938, initial...
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1930s American Modern Joseph Solman Art
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Canvas, Oil
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