Paul Raphael Meltsner was born in New York City in 1905. A native New Yorker, Mr. Meltsner attended Flushing High School and graduated in 1922. He became closely associated with the WPA, enjoying the support given artists during the Great Depression and in 1938 a New York City gallery offered him a one-man exhibition.
Mr. Meltsner is well known for his his industrial scenes depicting urban scenes and in the mid 1930's he expanded his genre and began to paint portraits of actors and perfo (showing 500 of 2479 characters). |
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