About Ralph Rosenborg

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Ralph Rosenberg
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    The following biography was written by Virginia M. Mecklenburg for the Patricia and Phillip Frost Collection: "American Abstraction, 1930-1945" (Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), pp. 151-153. It was submitted by Peter Karol.

    ALTHOUGH RALPH ROSENBORG HAS PAINTED ABSTRACT WORK THROUGHOUT his life, nature has served as his perennial motif. He won a scholarship while still in high school to Saturday art classes at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. After classes ended, he continued to study privately with his teacher there, Henriette Reiss, who provided not only exacting technical training, but broad-based instruction in music, literature, and art h...

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