Contemporary Arts Center
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center
for Contemporary Art
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Cincinnati, OH 45202
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Artist Details
Born: Cairo, Egypt 1906
Died: Amagansett, New York 1956
Born in Egypt, brought to New York City in 1914. Artist who worked as a WPA muralist in the 1930s, compassionately portrayed the poor in his own paintings, but later adopted a much more abstract style.
(source: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=1981)