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Karel Appel Sam Francis Paul Jenkins Nicholas Krushenik Reuben Nakian Norman Bluhm Larry Rivers Julian Stanczak Jiro Takamatsu Antoni Tapies Sofu Teshigahara Victor Vasarely Andy Warhol Henry Moore Marino Marini Jean-Paul Riopelle Fernand Leger Mark Wiener Roberto Matta John Matos |
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Reuben Nakian | |||||
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| Reuben Nakian was
an American sculptor, illustrator, and teacher. He was born on August
10, 1897 in College Point, New York and died on December 4, 1986 in Stamford,
Connecticut. Nakian's recurring themes are from Greek and Roman mythology. Noted works include Leda and the Swan, The Rape of Lucrece, Hecuba, and Birth of Venus. He was also commissioned to create portraits of Roosevelt's cabinet in the 1930s. In 1915 Nakian studied at the Independent School of Art in New York City, then studied at the Robert Henri School with Homer Boss and A.S. Baylinson. Later he studied at the Art Students League of New York and was apprenticed to Paul Manship.[1] Nakian met and befriended painters Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning in the 1930s and Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp in the 1940s. Poet Frank O'Hara was the curator of a Nakian exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1966. In the exhibition's catalog, O'Hara notes. |
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