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Reuben Nakian (1897 - 1986) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut. Reuben Nakian is known for Abstract female figure sculpture, allegorical drawing.
Abstract Expressionist* sculptor, Reuben Nakian was born in College Point, New York. Before 1911, he had briefly studied art before going to work for an advertising agency. In 1915 he attended, possibly one of the only schools at the time to have students studying modernist art, the Independent School of Art in New York City. He then went on to study at the Robert Henri School* with Homer Boss and A.S. Baylinson. He also studied at the Art Students League*, apprenticed to Paul Manship, from 1916-1920, where he met Gaston Lachaise and became his studio assistant.
Beginning his career as a sculptor, Nakian associated with other Abstract Expressionists, becoming friends of Arshile Gorky and Willem DeKooning. This group of artist friends soon became the subject of a series of portrait busts in the early 1930s. He became famous in 1934 for his eight-foot-high plaster statue of Babe Ruth, which was later destroyed. He was commissioned ...
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Gaston Lachaise
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Robert Laurent
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Bruno Lucchesi
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Varujan Boghosian
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Elie Nadelman
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Chaim Gross
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Ernest Tino Trova
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Doris Caesar
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Miguel Ortiz Berrocal
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Cleve (Ginsburg) Gray
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Budd Hopkins
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Paul Howard Manship
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Lowell Nesbitt
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Abraham Walkowitz
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Vardea (Mavromichali) Chryssa
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Jacques Lipchitz
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Robert Beauchamp
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Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman
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Richard Lindner
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Moses Soyer
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Jack Lembeck
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Jean Hans Arp
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Boris Lovet-Lorski
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Joel Elias Shapiro
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