"WPA/Federal Arts Project Artists" Exhibition
Figureworks
This event has ended.
Figureworks honors WPA artists Gerrit Hondius and Benjamin Kopman with a selection of rarely viewed paintings.
Born in Kampen, Holland in 1891, Gerrit Hondius studied at the Royal Academy in The Hague. He left for New York in 1915 where he studied with Max Weber and Andrew Dasburg at the Art Students League. Hondius was also greatly influenced by the French Expressionist painter and printmaker Georges Rouault. He worked for the Federal Arts Project and his primary subjects were ballerinas, circus scenes, landscapes, still lifes, and masked figures.
Hondius had over fifty one-man exhibitions in Europe and the United States. His work was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1924-26, 1932 and 1934; the 1939 World's Fair; Museum of Modern Art; Rockefeller Center; and Graham Gallery, in the 1950s. His work was exhibited posthumously in New York City WPA Art in 1977 at the Parson's School of Design, New York City.
Jewish-American artist, Benjamin Kopman was born in Vitebsk, Russia in 1887 and came to the U.S. in 1903 where he studied at the National Academy of Design. He was a painter, illustrator, and sculptor and exhibited widely including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy, Corcoran Gallery, and the Salons of America. He was an active member of the WPA. His illustration work included the novels "Crime and Punishment" in 1944 and "Frankenstein" in 1948.
Media
Schedule
from March 13, 2009 to April 05, 2009