Born in Kiev, Irving Lehman studied at the Art Students League and Cooper Union in New York City, eventually becoming a Member of the American Artists Congress, American Abstract Artists and other contemporary avant-garde groups. With many others he worked on the WPA.

Exhibitions: Whitney Museum, National Academy, Albany Institute, Brooklyn Museum PAFA, and numerous important American and European institutions and galleries.

Awards: His work won international acclaim from England - Israel - Paris, while he is primarily accorded a permanent place in American Art History as member of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism.

Submitted by James Brown, whose source was online at:
http://www.hastingsartltd.com/Lehmanbio.htm

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Irving George Lehman, painter, printmaker, designer, engraver and teacher, was born in 1900 in Russia, later coming to Brooklyn, New York. He studied at the Cooper Union School of Art, and National Academy of Design, both in New York City. He worked as a W.P.A. (Works Progess Administration) artist during the Depression. He was a member of the American Art Congress. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; National Academy of Design; and Brooklyn Museum.

Lehman is listed in Who Was Who in American Art, and Mallett's Index of Artists.

He died in September 1983 in a nursing home in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Sources include:
http://www.goantiques.com/detail,american-cityscape-drawing,18289,html
Obituary, New York Times, September 24, 1983; courtesy of Dean Brownrout.