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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Surrealist Biomorphic Compositon
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from AskART:
| Lawrence Edward Kupferman was born March 25, 1900 in Dorchester, MA, the son of cigar maker, Samuel Kupferman and Rose. He studied at the Boston Museum School with Philip Leslie Hale and H. Alden Ripley (1929-1931); Massachusetts School of Art with Ernest L. Majors and Otis Philbrick (1931-1935).
He a member of the Society of American Etchers; an Associate at the National Academy; Philadelphia Watercolor Club. Awards include American Artists for Victory (1942); San Francisco Art Association (1938); Society of American Etchers (1939).
One-man shows include Mortimer Brandt Gallery (1946); Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston (1944-1946); Mortimer Leavitt Gallery, NY (1948, 1949, 1951, 1953); Martha Jackson Gallery (1955); Swetzoff Gallery, Boston (1956); Ruth White Gallery, NY (1958); Gropper Gallery, NY (1958); Pace Gallery, Boston (1950,1961,1963); DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (1961); Galerie Irla Kert, Montreal (1962); Art Unlimited, Prov., RI (1963); Tragos Gallery, Boston (1965); Horizon Gallery, Rockport (1968); Greenfield Gallery, NY (1970); Horizon West, L.A., CA (1971); Harold Ernst Gallery, Boston (1973);retrospective, Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA (1976).
Kupferman was an instructor at the Massachusetts School of Art (1941-1970). He died at University Hospital in Boston of Parkinson's disease and complications of pneumonia on October 2, 1982. He married artist, Ruth Cobb on April 29, 1937 and they had two children, both artists, Nancy and David.
Critic Howard Devree wrote in The New York Times, "A gentlelyric spirit is manifest in the watercolors of Lawrence Kupferman. Suggestion through rich evanescent color is Kupferman's approachof wind-blown foliage or tide-moved water weeds, the sense of sunlight on a May morning or the mysterious mantle of an August night and of stars seen through pine trees, and of the feel of the sea through shapes and colors calling up marine images. These paintings are poetic visions of the inner eye."
Submitted by Patricia Jobe Pierce, Pierce Galleries Inc
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During the 1930s, Lawrence Edward Kupferman was employed by the Works Progress Administration, making a series of etchings and dry points, mostly of the facades of houses. His style changed completely in the 1940s, becoming first political and expressionist, and later abstract expressionist. In very recent years he had returned to making prints of buildings in his first manner.
As an educator, he served as chairman of the department of painting at the Massachusetts College of Arts.
Source:
Marilyn Pink Fine Arts
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