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Irving Norman

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Irving Norman (1906 - 1989) was active/lived in California / Poland.  Irving Norman is known for Surreal genre-other mod imagery.

Irving Norman has described his motivation to paint as a "quest to synthesize the abstraction of Picasso-what he called Picasso's "freedom of design"-and the social commentary of Orozco."

Norman was born Irving Noachowitz in 1906 in the city of Vilna, when it was still under the Russian Czar. At the end of WWI Vilna became part of Poland, which is what he claims as his birthplace. Norman began to sketch and paint in his mid-thirties out of a need to express the rage from his experience with war.

He received his formal art training under painters William Gaw and Spencer Macky at the California School of Fine Arts. He was then awarded the Albert Bender Prize in 1946 that enabled him to spend almost a year at the Art Student's League in New York, studying with Reginald Marsh and Robert Beverly Hale. Norman insisted that the greatest training he received was from his firsthand study of the "great monuments of world art." He viewed Jose Clemente Orozco and Pablo Picasso as th   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6174 characters.]  Artist bio

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Irving Norman
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Review of Exhibitions July 2003 Editor, Art in America Yes
American Art Review Paintings by Irving Norman October 1996 Junker, Patricia Yes
6 Book References for Irving Norman
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
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
1995 Nash, Steven A Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area 216 Yes
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
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