Russian-American genre scene painter, Isaac Soyer, specialized in portraits, interiors and dancers. He was born 1902 in Tombrov, Russia and along with his family emigrated to the United States in... Read full biography
Russian-American genre scene painter, Isaac Soyer, specialized in portraits, interiors and dancers. He was born 1902 in Tombrov, Russia and along with his family emigrated to the United States in 1912. Isaac had two older twin brothers, Raphael Soyer, 18991987 and Moses Soyer, 18991974 (b.... Read full biography
Russian-American genre scene painter, Isaac Soyer, specialized in portraits, interiors and dancers. He was born 1902 in Tombrov, Russia and along with his family emigrated to the United States in 1912. Isaac had two older twin brothers, Raphael Soyer, 18991987 and Moses Soyer, 18991974 (b. Borisoglebsk), who were also artists. They settled in New York City, inspired by everyday attitudes, thoughts, and gestures of people doing everyday tasks. As a WPA artist, Isaac's "Employment Agency"... Read full biography
Russian-American genre scene painter, Isaac Soyer, specialized in portraits, interiors and dancers. He was born 1902 in Tombrov, Russia and along with his family emigrated to the United States in 1912. Isaac had two older twin brothers, Raphael Soyer, 18991987 and Moses Soyer, 18991974 (b. Borisoglebsk), who were also artists. They settled in New York City, inspired by everyday attitudes, thoughts, and gestures of people doing everyday tasks. As a WPA artist, Isaac's "Employment Agency" (Whitney Mus., New York City) reveals the social realities of the Depression years. The Soyers' depiction of individuals and their environment place them in the category of American realism. During World War II he worked at Bell Aircraft Corporation in... Read full biography
Russian-American genre scene painter, Isaac Soyer, specialized in portraits, interiors and dancers. He was born 1902 in Tombrov, Russia and along with his family emigrated to the United States in 1912. Isaac had two older twin brothers, Raphael Soyer, 18991987 and Moses Soyer, 18991974 (b. Borisoglebsk), who were also artists. They settled in New York City, inspired by everyday attitudes, thoughts, and gestures of people doing everyday tasks. As a WPA artist, Isaac's "Employment Agency" (Whitney Mus., New York City) reveals the social realities of the Depression years. The Soyers' depiction of individuals and their environment place them in the category of American realism. During World War II he worked at Bell Aircraft Corporation in Buffalo, New York. He was an instructor at the Albright Art School, Buffalo, New York, 1941-44; Buffalo Art Institute and Niagara Fal... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (42)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
City of Ambition Artists and New York, 1900-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Sussman, Elizabeth
144 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
American Highlights/Estados Unidos U S History in Notable Works of Art
1993
Pavese, Edith
160 pages (color)
The "New Woman" Revised Painting and Gender Politics on 14th Street
1993
Todd, Ellen Wiley
414 pages (color)
Painting a Place in America Jewish Artists in New York 1900-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Kleeblatt, Norman L and Susan Chevlowe (Editors)
208 pages (color)
The Salons of America (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Marlor, Clark S
242 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Antifascism in American Art
1989
Whiting, Cecile
238 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
The Wayward Muse Historical Survey of Painting in Buffalo (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Krane, Susan
208 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Wooden, Howard E
151 pages
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art
1983
Contreras, Belasario R
253 pages
Social Concern and Urban Realism American Painting in the 1930s (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Hills, Patricia
96 pages
Social Art in America 1930-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Brown, Milton (essay). ACA Galleries
62 pages
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst
544 pages (color)
The Regionalists
1976
Heller, Nancy/Julia Williams
190 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s
1974
Baigell, Mathew
214 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1973
1973
Jaques Cattell Press
927 pages
Art for the Millions Essays by...Artists...WPA Federal Art Project
1973
O'Connor, Francis V (editor)
317 pages
The Thirties Decade American Artists and Their European Contemporaries (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Porter, Allen/Wm McGonagle
80 pages
Sixty Paintings Brooks Memorial Art Gallery
1966
McNight, Robert J
70 pages
American Art of Our Century
1961
Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur
309 pages (color)
Fifty Contemporary American Artis (Exhibition catalog)
1957
Chanin, A L/Greenwich Gallery
112 pages
Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art
1951
Baur, John I H
170 pages
One Hundred Contemporary American Jewish Painters and Sculptors
1947
Lozowick, Louis
207 pages
Painting in the U S A
1946
Gruskin, Alan D
223 pages (color)
Portrait of America
1945
Crane, Aimee
204 pages (color)
Painters and Sculptors of Modern America
1942
Wheeler, Monroe (intro)
152 pages (color)
Frontiers of American Art: Works Progress Administration (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Parker, Thomas (De Young Mus)
111 pages
American Painting Today
1939
Watson, Forbes (essay)
179 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index