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Joseph Solman Portrait Paintings

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.
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Artist: Joseph Solman
The Red Beard

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 Portrait Paintings

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"Figure Study" Joseph Solman, Blue and Sepia, Pastel Colors Seated Study
"Figure Study" Joseph Solman, Blue and Sepia, Pastel Colors Seated Study

"Figure Study" Joseph Solman, Blue and Sepia, Pastel Colors Seated Study

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Portrait of a Seated Woman

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Joseph Solman Portrait Paintings

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Marian Begg, Expressionist Oil on Masonite Portrait Painting by Joseph Solman
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Marian Begg, Expressionist Oil on Masonite Portrait Painting by Joseph Solman

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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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John Begg Jr., Expressionist Oil Painting on Masonite by Joseph Solman
John Begg Jr., Expressionist Oil Painting on Masonite by Joseph Solman

John Begg Jr., Expressionist Oil Painting on Masonite by Joseph Solman

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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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John Begg Sr., Expressionist Portrait by Joseph Solman

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