Seymour Fogel

Graham Modern Gallery, New York

The canvas is lined. The picture surface has a few scattered areas of light craquelure and pigment separation. Under UV, there is inpainting concentrated along the edges and at the corners. Further minor spots of inpainting are scattered throughought the composition, including two minor spots in the figure's face.
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Seymour Fogel, born in New York City in 1911, studied at the Art Students League in 1929 and at the National Academy of Design from 1929 to 1932 under such recognized artists as Leon Kroll and George Brandt Bridgman. His artistic career spanned nearly six decades exploring concepts, developing new techniques, and teaching. His artistic output included social realism, abstract and expressionist art and transcendentalist art which he referred to as "atavistic." In addition, Fogel created nearly a dozen WPA murals around the United States from New York to Washington D.C. to Arizona. His work has been widely exhibited at such museums as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Corcoran Gallery and the Carnegie Institute.