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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 history. More... Read full biography
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 history. More significantly, Reiss had worked with Kandinsky earlier in her career and introduced her young protégé to the vast arena of vanguard... Read full biography