biography of Philip REISMAN (1904-1992)

Birth place: Warsaw, Poland

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, illustrator, educator

Studied: ASL, illustration & composition with Wallace Morgan, life drawing with George Bridgeman; also etching & composition with Harry Wickey.

Exhibited: Roerich Mus. (solo); P&S (solo); Assoc. Am. Artists (solo); FAR Gal. (solo); Guild Gal., Warwick, OH (solo); The Hudson Guild (solo); Beaux Arts Gal., Denver (solo); Storm King AC, Mountainville, NY (solo); Harbor Gal., Cold Spring Harbor, NY (solo); AIC, 1932, 1944; PAFA Ann., 1933-34, 1946; MoMA, 1932; Nat. Print Exh.; Pepsi-Cola, 1944 (prize); WMAA; NAD, 1956 (Joseph Isidor Gold Medal); Art USA, 1959; Michiewitz Centennial Committee Prize, 1955; Childe Hassam Found. Purchase Prize, 1968; Yaddo Fellowship; NYC WPA Art" at Parsons Sch. Design, 1977; ACA Gal., NYC, 1970s."

Member: An Am. Group; Artists Lg. Am.; Am. Artists Congress; Artists Equity Assn. New York (vice pres.; pres.).

Work: MMA; NYPL (print coll.); MoMA; Bibliothèque Nat., Paris; Syracuse (NY)Univ. Coll.; Bates College, ME; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Norfolk (VA) Mus. Commissions: WPA mural, Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, New York, 1938.

Comments: Preferred media: oils, watercolors. Publications: illustr., Anna Karenina," Vols. I & II, 1940 & "Crime and Punishment," 44 Random. Teaching: Workshop Sch. Advertising Art, New York, 1954-56; Five Towns Arts Found., 1968-70; Educ. Alliance, New York, 1971-72.

Sources: WW73; Lincoln Kirstein, Philip Reisman (Hound & Horn, 1933); Henry Goodman, Philip Reisman (AD, 1941); illustrations reproduced by Life (1941); WW47; New York City WPA Art, 73 (w/repros.); Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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