SAMUEL ROTHBORT (1882-1971). Samuel Rothbort became known for his work in oil, watercolor, and sculpture in wood and stone. His accomplished pen and ink drawings are yet to be exhibited. He named his... Read full biography
SAMUEL ROTHBORT (1882-1971). Samuel Rothbort became known for his work in oil, watercolor, and sculpture in wood and stone. His accomplished pen and ink drawings are yet to be exhibited. He named his impressionistic style “Direct Art” and which he “equated with truth”. This separated him from the... Read full biography
SAMUEL ROTHBORT (1882-1971). Samuel Rothbort became known for his work in oil, watercolor, and sculpture in wood and stone. His accomplished pen and ink drawings are yet to be exhibited. He named his impressionistic style “Direct Art” and which he “equated with truth”. This separated him from the French Impressionists since he always completed a work on site; never in his or any other studio. Samuel Rothbort was born in November 1882 in Valkovisk (Polesia), White Russia. His father was a... Read full biography
SAMUEL ROTHBORT (1882-1971). Samuel Rothbort became known for his work in oil, watercolor, and sculpture in wood and stone. His accomplished pen and ink drawings are yet to be exhibited. He named his impressionistic style “Direct Art” and which he “equated with truth”. This separated him from the French Impressionists since he always completed a work on site; never in his or any other studio. Samuel Rothbort was born in November 1882 in Valkovisk (Polesia), White Russia. His father was a scholar and his mother was the breadwinner, operating a flour and grain stand. As a seven year old child he was molding and sculpting with his mother’s dough when she baked. During his youth, Samuel worked as a Cantor and traveled to various towns and... Read full biography
SAMUEL ROTHBORT (1882-1971). Samuel Rothbort became known for his work in oil, watercolor, and sculpture in wood and stone. His accomplished pen and ink drawings are yet to be exhibited. He named his impressionistic style “Direct Art” and which he “equated with truth”. This separated him from the French Impressionists since he always completed a work on site; never in his or any other studio. Samuel Rothbort was born in November 1882 in Valkovisk (Polesia), White Russia. His father was a scholar and his mother was the breadwinner, operating a flour and grain stand. As a seven year old child he was molding and sculpting with his mother’s dough when she baked. During his youth, Samuel worked as a Cantor and traveled to various towns and villages acquiring many impressions of daily Jewish life. Poverty as well as political unrest,... Read full biography
Samuel Rothbort - Artist Info
About Samuel Rothbort: Books
Books & Publications (16)
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists, English Version and Online (Fourteen Volumes)
2006
Benezit, E
0 pages
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
Samuel Rothbert: Direct Carver
2003
Marter, Joan; D.F. Baker
49 pages (color)
Self Taught Outsider and Folk Art: A Guide to American Artists, Locations
2000
Sellen, Betty; Cynthia Jefferson
339 pages
20th Century American Folk, Self Taught & Outsider Art
2000
Sellen, Betty; Cynthia Johnson
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Samuel Rothbort: Paintings/Sculptures/Watercolors
1996
Markowitz, Zev; S Herskowitz
125 pages (color)
Long Island Landscape Painting Vol ll, The Twentieth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Pisano, Ronald G
168 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Artists/USA 1974-75: Guide to Contemporary American Art
1974
Lieberman, Herbert (ed)
190 pages
Out of Wood & Stone
1952
Rothbort, Samuel
83 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index