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Wilfred Zogbaum

Wilfred Zogbaum (1915 - 1965) was active/lived in New York, Rhode Island.  Wilfred Zogbaum is known for Abstract imagery, modernist sculpture.

Best known today as a sculptor, Wilfrid Zogbaum began his art career as a modernist painter. He was the son of an admiral and the grandson of Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum, an artist-illustrator who covered the Spanish-American War. As a child, Zogbaum traveled extensively in Europe, and spoke French and German fluently. In high school, he spent two summers studying painting and drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1933 he enrolled for a year at the Yale School of Art, but left to go to New York where he studied initially with John Sloan. Beginning in 1935, Zogbaum attended Hans Hofmann's school, where, with Giorgio Cavallon and George McNeil, he served as a class monitor.

Zogbaum described Hofmann as "the only prophet of modern art in America." He believed, with Hofmann, in the importance of nature within art: " … when art gets too far away from nature or from ordinary things it begins to lose itself in a kind of … glorious mist."(1) Some of Zogbaum's paintings from this   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4386 characters.]  Artist bio

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