By Sidney Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Sidney Gross (1921-1969) was an American modernist artist and painter. Like most young artists during the Depression, Sidney Gross was influenced by the social realism of the WPA, prominent at art schools like Cooper Union and the Arts Students League in New York city, His work also drew on the surrealist movement that was still relatively new. By the time he was twenty, he was painting distinctively urban surrealism, producing critically admired portraits, something he continued to do throughout his lifetime. At the League, he studied under Jon Corbino, Arnold Blanch, Morris Kantor, and George Picken. Other teachers at the school whose art he would have become familiar with include Will Barnet, George Grosz, Jean Charlot, Ernest Fiene, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Raphael Soyer, Harry Sternberg and William Zorach. The Federal Art Program was reorganized under WPA and its many artistic programs were winding down. Mark Rothko was among those dropped. In the meantime, around him the New York art scene was undergoing a revolution, of which he was surely aware. In May 1930, the Museum of Non-Objective Art opened, financed by and drawn from the collection of Simon Guggenheim, which included Arp, Kandinsky, Chagall, Moholy-Nagy, and the more traditional Vlaminck. Picasso's Guernica was exhibited at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery. Willem DeKooning was moved to paint a tribute to it. Adolph Gottlieb painted a series of Surrealist sea...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Sidney Gross Paintings
MaterialsMixed Media, Oil, Alkyd