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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.

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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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   Publications  Book References:  31
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31 Book References for David Aronson
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Harris, Neil/Martina R Norelli Art, Design and the Modern Corporation
(Exhibition catalog)
135 Yes
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1980 Styron, Thomas W American Figure Painting 1950-198
(Exhibition catalog)
115 Yes
1977 Dillenberger, Jane & John Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
175 Yes
1976 Institute of Contemporary Art A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976 194 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Chambers, Bruce W American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue 127 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1969 Brockton Art Center Three Centuries of New England Art From New England Museums 48 No
1968 Weller, Allen S The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art 185 No
1967 Grossman, Emery Art and Tradition The Jewish Artist in America 176 Yes
1965 University of Illinois Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)
210 No
1965 Whitney Museum A Decade of American Drawings 8th Exhibition Sponsored by Friends
(Exhibition catalog)
52 No
1962 Goodrich, Lloyd/Edward Bryant Forty Artists under Forty From the Whitney Museum of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
48 Yes
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1954 Pearson, Ralph M Modern Renaissance in American Art 300 No
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1948 Genauer, Emily Best of Art 182 Yes
1946 Miller, Dorothy (editor) Fourteen Americans
(Exhibition catalog)
80 No
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