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David Fredenthal

David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958) was active/lived in California, New York, Michigan / Italy.  David Fredenthal is known for Urban genre-view, figure, illustrations.

David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958) was one ot America's most respected watercolor artists. He was famous for his bold, intensely vigorous and complex paintings and drawings that expressed his deep feeling for excitement with life and living. He was a draftsman with seemingly a special gift for catching anything, physically and emotionally on the spot, and he never went anywhere without three or four loaded pens and a sketchbook in his pocket.

As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939.  Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera who had admired and encouraged him in the early 1930's.

After he won a traveling scholarship to Europe from The Museum of Modern Art at age 19, he was the recipient of two Guggenheim grants in Painting.  He had his first solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2728 characters.]  Artist bio

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