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David Aronson

David Aronson (1923 - 2015) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New York.  David Aronson is known for Allegorical expressionist painting, charcoal drawings, sculpture.

Following is The New York Times obituary.

"David Aronson, Expressionist Artist, Dies at 91"

By Sam Roberts, July 14, 2015.

David Aronson, an Expressionist artist whose vivid paintings, charcoal drawings and sculptures captured the tension between his Orthodox Jewish upbringing and the biblical injunction against making graven images, died on July 2 in Natick, Mass. He was 91.

The cause was chronic heart failure and pneumonia, his daughter, Judy Webb, said.

Mr. Aronson’s work animated Old and New Testament allegories to convey universal human emotions — defying the deference of his father, a rabbi, to the Second Commandment. A leader, with Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine, of the so-called Boston Expressionist movement, Mr. Aronson was influential as both a painter and a professor.

He founded what became the College of Fine Arts at Boston University in 1955, was appointed a tenured professor in 1962 and taught there until his retirement   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7603 characters.]  Artist bio

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