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Leon Bibel Prints and Multiples

1913-1995

Leon Bibel, a painter, printmaker and sculptor, was born in Poland in 1913 but moved with his family to San Francisco as a child. He trained at the California School of Fine Arts and received a scholarship to study under the German Impressionist Maria Riedelstein. He worked in collaboration with Bernard Zackheim, a student of Diego Rivera, to create frescoes for the San Francisco Jewish Community Center and the University of California Medical School. In 1936, Bibel moved from California to join the Federal Art Project of the New York City Work Projects Administration. He was assigned to the Graphic Art Project and the Easel Project at Harlem Art Center. He also taught at both PS 94 Kings College School and Bronx House in New York City. Bibel’s program in the WPA ended in 1941 and he moved with his wife to South Brunswick, New Jersey, ceasing his artistic pursuits to support his family. He resumed his artistic work in the early 1960s and continued to explore the mediums of painting and sculpture until his death. A constant innovator, Bibel experimented with diverse printmaking mediums. His work is distinguished by its boldly conceived, dramatic composition and passionately executed expressionist renderings. Bibel's parents immigrated from Poland and he remained staunchly pacifist, even throughout WWII. Much of his work during this period focused on the destructiveness of war and the consequent suffering and alienation of humankind. An artist of the people, his work is imbued with a sense of humanity and a concern for social justice and the plight of the working man. Bibel’s numerous exhibitions include the solo exhibition at Newark Museum in 1966, Jersey City Museum in 1967, Hunterdon Art Museum, Rutgers State University and New Jersey State Museum in 1978. He has also exhibited at Rider College, in 1983, Rutgers Hillel Foundation from 1985–86. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Newark Museum, the Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Klutznick Museum and the New Brunswick State Theater, as well as many corporate and private collections.

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Artist: Leon Bibel
'Abstract Boats' — American Modernism, WPA
'Abstract Boats' — American Modernism, WPA

'Abstract Boats' — American Modernism, WPA

By Leon Bibel

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Leon Bibel, 'Abstract Boats', color serigraph, 1938, edition 12. Signed, dated, and numbered ' /12' in pencil. A fine, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper; t...

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1930s American Modern Leon Bibel Prints and Multiples

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'Food Not Cannon' — WPA Modernist Work of  Social Conscience
'Food Not Cannon' — WPA Modernist Work of  Social Conscience

'Food Not Cannon' — WPA Modernist Work of Social Conscience

By Leon Bibel

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Leon Bibel, 'Food Not Cannon', etching, 1937, edition 12 (an early state, probably unique). Signed in pencil. A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/8 to 2 1/8 ...

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1930s American Modern Leon Bibel Prints and Multiples

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'Unemployed Marchers' — American Modernism, WPA
'Unemployed Marchers' — American Modernism, WPA

'Unemployed Marchers' — American Modernism, WPA

By Leon Bibel

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Leon Bibel, 'Unemployed Marchers', 2-color lithograph, c. 1938, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '2/25' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression on off-white, wove paper, w...

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1930s American Modern Leon Bibel Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

'Clown' — WPA American Expressionism
'Clown' — WPA American Expressionism

'Clown' — WPA American Expressionism

By Leon Bibel

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Leon Bibel, 'Clown', color serigraph, 1939, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on buff la...

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1930s American Modern Leon Bibel Prints and Multiples

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EUCALYPTUS TREE
EUCALYPTUS TREE

EUCALYPTUS TREE

By Leon Bibel

Located in Portland, ME

Bibel, Leon (American, born Poland, 1912-1995). EUCALYPTUS TREE. Screenprint, 1938. Edition of 25. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 14/25, all in pencil, and also signed in the mat...

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