The following, submitted May 2005, is from Louis Marano, who wrote: "I am in possession (minus its cover) of the February, 1945, issue of Ladies Home Journal -- Vol. LXII, No. 2. The Contents page... Read full biography
The following, submitted May 2005, is from Louis Marano, who wrote: "I am in possession (minus its cover) of the February, 1945, issue of Ladies Home Journal -- Vol. LXII, No. 2. The Contents page has a photo of Kopf in front of a painting of a black man. Below the photo is the text:. Maxim Kopf,... Read full biography
The following, submitted May 2005, is from Louis Marano, who wrote: "I am in possession (minus its cover) of the February, 1945, issue of Ladies Home Journal -- Vol. LXII, No. 2. The Contents page has a photo of Kopf in front of a painting of a black man. Below the photo is the text:. Maxim Kopf, who painted our cover design, says, "I never wanted to be anything but a painter, an ambition in which I received no encouragement whatever from my family. But my father finally allowed me to enter the... Read full biography
The following, submitted May 2005, is from Louis Marano, who wrote: "I am in possession (minus its cover) of the February, 1945, issue of Ladies Home Journal -- Vol. LXII, No. 2. The Contents page has a photo of Kopf in front of a painting of a black man. Below the photo is the text:. Maxim Kopf, who painted our cover design, says, "I never wanted to be anything but a painter, an ambition in which I received no encouragement whatever from my family. But my father finally allowed me to enter the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, whose entrance examinations I had already secretly taken and passed. During the last war I fought in a Czech regiment (with little enthusiasm but some honor) for His Majesty's Austro-Hungarian Empire. I got out of it... Read full biography
The following, submitted May 2005, is from Louis Marano, who wrote: "I am in possession (minus its cover) of the February, 1945, issue of Ladies Home Journal -- Vol. LXII, No. 2. The Contents page has a photo of Kopf in front of a painting of a black man. Below the photo is the text:. Maxim Kopf, who painted our cover design, says, "I never wanted to be anything but a painter, an ambition in which I received no encouragement whatever from my family. But my father finally allowed me to enter the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, whose entrance examinations I had already secretly taken and passed. During the last war I fought in a Czech regiment (with little enthusiasm but some honor) for His Majesty's Austro-Hungarian Empire. I got out of it more dead than alive, and His Majesty's Empire did not get out of it at all. But Czechoslovakia was born, so I went happily home to Prague and b... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (11)
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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
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings
335 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
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
Best of Art
1948
Genauer, Emily
182 pages (color)
The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1944
The Art Institute of Chicago
22 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index