biography of Reuben KADISH (1913-1992)

Birth place: Chicago, IL

Death place: NYC

Addresses: Los Angeles, CA, 1919; San Fran., CA, c.1933

Profession: Mural painter, lithographer, painter, sculptor

Studied: Lorser Feitelson, 1925-31; Otis Art Inst.; 1930; Los Angeles City College; Stickney Sch. Art, Pasadena, CA (studio scholarship); with S. W. Hayter, Calif. School FA, 1940; Brooklyn Mus. School

Exhibited: San Francisco AA, 1937, 1939; Stanley Rose Gallery, Hollywood, 1937 (solo); "NYC WPA Art" at Parsons School Design, 1977.

Member: Am. A. Cong.; Woodstock AA

Work: fresco murals (in collab. with P. Goldstein), Museum, Univ. Michoacan, Mexico; Lib., Los Angeles Sanitorium, Duarte, CA; fresco mural, San Fran. State Teachers Col.; Fogg Mus.; Newark Mus.

Comments: Hd. of mural div. for FAP in San Francisco. Worked with Jackson Pollock at Atelier 17 in NYC in 1944. Art teacher, Cooper Union, NYC. Worked at Tamarind, Los Angeles in 1961.

Sources: WW40; Hughes, Artists in California, 297; Modernism in California Printmaking," Nov. 1998, The Annex Galleries; Woodstock AA; New York City WPA Art, 46 (w/repros.; name spelled as "Kaddish.")"