biography of Mitchell SIPORIN (1910-1976)

Birth place: NYC

Death place: Newton, MA

Addresses: Wash. DC.; Newton, MA

Profession: Painter, educator, illustrator

Studied: Crane College, Chicago, IL; AIC; Todros Geller

Exhibited: AIC, 1933 ("Century of Progess" Expo), 1938-39, 1941 (Florsheim prize), 1944-50; MoMA, 1936, 1941-42; PAFA Ann., 1939-44, 1946 (Pennell medal), 1947-53, 1962; WFNY, 1939; San Francisco World's Fair, 1940; Downtown Gal., NYC, 1940 (first solo), 1942 (solo) 1946 (solo); Springfield MFA, 1943; Corcoran Gal biennials, 1941-53 (5 times); WMAA, 1943-50; Carnegie Inst., 1940-60; MoMA-Paris, 1946; Univ. Iowa Annual, 1947 (1st prize); Phila.. Art Alliance, 1949 (solo); Inst. Contemp. Art, Boston, 1949; Babcock Gal., NYC, 1990 (retrospective). Other awards: Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, 1945-46; Prix de Rome for painting, Am. Acad. Rome, 1950; Fulbright fellow, Italy, 1966-67

Member: Am. Artists Congress; United Am. Artists; Woodstock AA

Work: WMAA; MoMA; MMA; AIC; NMAA; PMA; St. Louis AM; Smith College MA; Wichita MA; Smith College; Univ. New Mexico; Encyclopedia Britannica Collection; Univ. Georgia; Fogg AM, Harvard; Addison Gal.; Alabama Polytech.; BPL; Cranbrook Acad.; Butler IA; Hirschhorn Mus.; Newark Mus.; NYPL; Brandeis Univ.; Univ. Arizona; Georgia MA; Krannert AM, Univ. Illinois; Univ. Iowa; Shledon Mem. Gal, Univ. Nebraska; Univ. New Mexico AM; Wichita AM. Commissions: frescoes, USPO Decatur, IL, 1937; USPO Saint Louis, 1939; murals, H.S., Chicago Heights, IL; Lane Tech. H.S., Chicago; Woodstock AA

Comments: Preferred media: oils, watercolors. Illustrator: Esquire, Ringmaster, New Masses. Teaching: Brandeis Univ., 1951-

Sources: WW73; WW47; S. Cheney, Expressionism in Art (Liveright, 1934); H. Cahill, New Horizon in American Art (MoMA, 1939); Americans 1942 (MoMA, 1942); Falk, Exh. Record Series.