Joseph Raffael, painter and printmaker, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1933. He studied at Cooper Union, New York City, 1953-54, and received a Summer Fellowship to the Yale-Norfolk School in... Read full biography
Joseph Raffael, painter and printmaker, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1933. He studied at Cooper Union, New York City, 1953-54, and received a Summer Fellowship to the Yale-Norfolk School in 1954. He received his BFA degree from the Yale University School of Art, 1954-56, studying with Josef... Read full biography
Joseph Raffael, painter and printmaker, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1933. He studied at Cooper Union, New York City, 1953-54, and received a Summer Fellowship to the Yale-Norfolk School in 1954. He received his BFA degree from the Yale University School of Art, 1954-56, studying with Josef Albers. His early 1960s Photo-Realist paintings depicted nature based on photographs of animals, ponds and foliage. Large-scale close-ups of animal faces, such as Lizard Head, and human faces like... Read full biography
Joseph Raffael, painter and printmaker, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1933. He studied at Cooper Union, New York City, 1953-54, and received a Summer Fellowship to the Yale-Norfolk School in 1954. He received his BFA degree from the Yale University School of Art, 1954-56, studying with Josef Albers. His early 1960s Photo-Realist paintings depicted nature based on photographs of animals, ponds and foliage. Large-scale close-ups of animal faces, such as Lizard Head, and human faces like "African Lady," were said to reflect a deep concern for nature. Raffael states his interest in "observing fertile and fantastic things that have within them the power to erupt, like Vesuvius." . Raffael's media changed from oil to watercolor, pastel and... Read full biography
Joseph Raffael, painter and printmaker, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1933. He studied at Cooper Union, New York City, 1953-54, and received a Summer Fellowship to the Yale-Norfolk School in 1954. He received his BFA degree from the Yale University School of Art, 1954-56, studying with Josef Albers. His early 1960s Photo-Realist paintings depicted nature based on photographs of animals, ponds and foliage. Large-scale close-ups of animal faces, such as Lizard Head, and human faces like "African Lady," were said to reflect a deep concern for nature. Raffael states his interest in "observing fertile and fantastic things that have within them the power to erupt, like Vesuvius." . Raffael's media changed from oil to watercolor, pastel and lithography as his interpretations of natural phenomena evolved from being photo... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (67)
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Moving Toward the Light: Joseph Raffael
2015
Goodman, Lanie and Betsy Dillard Stroud
192 pages (color)
Kirk Pedersen: Urban Asia (Hardcover / Edition 1000)
2009
Pagel, David; Jeff Brouws
160 pages (color)
Kirk Pedersen: Urban Landscapes (Paperback)
2006
Frank, Peter
56 pages (color)
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
Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries
2005
Sasse, Julie
154 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
American Realism-Figurative Painting Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Arthur, John (Curator and Essayist)
64 pages (color)
The Art of Watercolor (Revised Edition)
1994
LeClair, Charles
144 pages
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
Large Scale Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1991
John Berggruen Gallery
47 pages (color)
Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
196 pages (color)
Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting
1989
Arthur, John
159 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Native Americans Five Centuries of Changing Images
1989
Trenton, Patricia/P T Houlihan
304 pages (color)
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
John Berggruen Gallery Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Berggruen, John
97 pages (color)
Twentieth Century Watercolors
1988
Finch, Christopher
310 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Realism Today: American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection National Academy of Design (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Dobkin, John (Preface); John I.H. Baer, (Essay)
120 pages (color)
Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Mecklenburg, Virginia
148 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Flower Painting
1986
Sydney, Clare
80 pages (color)
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
1985
Albright, Thomas
349 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
Reflections of Nature Flowers in American Art
1984
Foshay, Ellen M
202 pages (color)
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection
1984
Severinghaus, J Walter
333 pages (color)
Perspectives on Contemporary American Realism (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Goodyear, Frank H
91 pages (color)
California Contemporary Recent Work of Twenty Three Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Monterey Peninsula Museum
63 pages
The American Artist as Printmaker (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Walker, Barry
144 pages (color)
Contemporary Western Artists
1982
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
608 pages (color)
The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Trenton, Patricia
197 pages (color)
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
1981
Goodyear, Frank H, Jr.
255 pages (color)
Fifty West Coast Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in California
1981
Hopkins, Henry; Mimi Jacobs (illustration)
128 pages (color)
Animals in American Art 1880's-1980's (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Nassau County Museum
64 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
Realist Drawings & Watercolors Contemporary American Works on Papers
1980
Arthur, John
144 pages (color)
Realism/Photorealism (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Arthur, John
123 pages (color)
Superrealist Painting and Sculpture
1980
Lindey, Christine
160 pages (color)
Art in the Seventies
1980
Lucie-Smith, Edward
128 pages (color)
Documents, Drawings, and Collages Fifty American Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Butler, Hiram (others)
123 pages
An American Bestiary
1979
Haverstock, Mary Sayre
248 pages (color)
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
Crocker Art Museum: Handbook of Paintings
1979
West, Richard (Essay); Alfred Neumeyer; Joseph A. Baird, Jr.
202 pages (color)
Joseph Raffael The California Years 1969-1978 (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Garver, Thomas H
64 pages (color)
Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Dillenberger, Jane & John
175 pages (color)
8 Contemporary American Realists (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Goodyear, Frank H
62 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
New Realism
1976
Kulturmann, Udo
190 pages (color)
Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era
1976
San Francisco Mus Modern Art
272 pages (color)
Watercolor U S A National Invatational Exhibit (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Weller, Allen S
90 pages
Super Realism: A Critical Anthology
1975
Battcock, Gregory (editor)
322 pages (color)
Things Seen
1974
Geske, Norman
115 pages (color)
The New Humanism Art in a Time of Change
1974
Schwartz, Barry
192 pages (color)
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
University of Illinois
136 pages
Separate Realities California Representational Painting/Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Los Angeles Mun Art Gallery
60 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors
1973
University of Kansas Museum
80 pages
Human Concern/Personal Torment The Grotesque in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Doty, Robert
72 pages (color)
The American Sense of Reality (Exhibition catalog)