Social Realist American painter
Back O' The Yards Mitchell Siporin (1910–1976) was a Social Realist American painter.[1] [2]
Biography Mitchell Siporin was born on May 5, 1910, in New York City [3] to Hyman, a truck driver, and Jennie Siporin, both immigrants from Poland ,[4] and grew up in Chicago .[2] [5] Siporin attended School of the Art Institute of Chicago . He did illustrations for Esquire and other magazines. Beginning in the mid-1930s, Siporin worked as a painter for the Illinois Art Project through the Works Progress Administration .[6] Together with Edward Millman , he painted "the largest single mural project awarded for a post office by the Section of Fine Arts " in the Central Post Office in St Louis, Missouri .[5]
In late 1943 he was deployed as a sergeant in the Army Artist Unit , where he served alongside Rudolph von Ripper . He sent back drawings and watercolours from North Africa and Italy.[7]
He married Miriam Tane in Manhattan to November 9, 1945.[8] He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945 and 1947.[9] In 1949, he won the Prix de Rome in painting.[5]
In 1951, he founded the Department of Fine Arts at Brandeis University .[10] In 1956, he became the first curator of the Brandeis University Art Collection .[10]
Siporin died in 1976 in Newton, Massachusetts.[11] He was Jewish .[12]
Works Siporin's work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago ,[13] the Detroit Institute of Arts ,[14] the Metropolitan Museum of Art ,[15] the Museum of Modern Art ,[16] the National Gallery of Art ,[17] the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ,[18] the Smithsonian American Art Museum ,[11] the Whitney Museum of American Art ,[19] and Albert G. Lane Technical High School in Chicago.[20]
In 1947 his painting End of an Era won the Logan Medal of the Arts at the 51st Annual Exhibition in Chicago.[21]
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References ^ Ted Rall, Attitude: the new subversive political cartoonists , Syracuse, New York : Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing , 2002 [1] ^ a b "Oakton Community College biography". Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-06-04 . ^ "Mitchell Siporin". RKD (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 November 2022 . ^ 1930 United States Federal Census ^ a b c Abram Leon Sachar, Brandeis University: A Host at Last , Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press , 1995, p. 157 [2] ^ "Mitchell Siporin". Modernism in the New City: Chicago Artists, 1920-1950 . Retrieved 2 November 2022 . ^ The Army at War: A Graphic Record by American Artists. United States. War Finance Division. 31 December 1943. ^ New York City, Marriage Indexes, 1907-1995 ^ "Mitchell Siporin". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Retrieved 2 November 2022 . ^ a b Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, Painting in Boston, 1950-2000 , Amherst, Massachusetts : University of Massachusetts Press , 2002, p. 204 [3] ^ a b "Mitchell Siporin". Smithsonian American Art Museum . Retrieved 2 November 2022 . ^ Irving Cutler, The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb , Champaign, Illinois : University of Illinois Press , 1996, p. 146 [4] ^ "Mitchell Siporin | The Art Institute of Chicago". www.artic.edu . Retrieved 2018-06-11 . ^ "Railroaders". Detroit Institute of Arts Museum . Retrieved 2 November 2022 . ^ "Pueblito". Metropolitan Museum of Art . Retrieved 2 November 2022 . ^ "Mitchell Siporin". The Museum of Modern Art . Retrieved 2 November 2022 . ^ "Mitchell Siporin". National Gallery of Art . Retrieved 2 November 2022 . ^ "Mitchell Siporin". Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . Retrieved 2 November 2022 . ^ "Mitchell Siporin". Whitney Museum of American Art . Retrieved 2 November 2022 . ^ "Albert G. Lane Technical High School". Chicago Historic Schools. 12 November 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2015 . ^ "51st Annual Exhibition" (PDF) . Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 3 February 2015 .
External links Media related to Mitchell Siporin at Wikimedia CommonsMitchell Siporin art at "Comrades In Art" online show