biography of Benjamin D. KOPMAN (1887-1965)

Birth place: Vitebsk, Russia

Death place: Teaneck, NJ

Addresses: Far Rockaway, NY; New York 25, NY

Profession: Painter, lithographer, educator, illustrator, sculptor, writer

Studied: NAD.

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1914-17, 1932, 1941-52, 1960-66 (medal, 1946); Corcoran Gal,, 1916, 1921, 1945, 1959; WMAA; AIC; Salons of Am., 1927, 1929-30; MMA, 1959; Carnegie Inst., 1942-51, 1962; MMA, 1945 (prize); Gal. Claude Bernard, Paris, Invitational, 1960; more than 20 solo exhs. nationally; "NYC WPA Art" at Parsons Sch. Design, 1977.

Member: Am. Group; Am. Artists Congress; AEA.

Work: BM; WMAA; MoMA; MMA; Carnegie Inst.; PAFA; Phila. MA; PMG; Butler AI; WMA; Detroit Inst. Art; Acad. Arts & Letters; Tel-Aviv, Ain-Harod Mus., Israel; PC; Nelson Gal. Art.

Comments: Came to the U.S. in 1903. WPA artist. Illustr.: Crime and Punishment, 1944; Frankenstein, 1948.

Sources: WW59; WW40; New York City WPA Art, 51 (w/repros.); Falk, Exh. Record Series.