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Samuel Ostrowsky

Samuel Ostrowsky (1885 - 1946) was active/lived in Illinois.  Samuel Ostrowsky is known for Figure, still life painting, illustration.

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SAMUEL OSTROWSKY

Ostrowsky was born at Malin, near Kiev, Russia on May 5, 1885 or 1886. Vladimir Donatovitch Orolovski (1842-1914), a Russian landscapist, was the first to promote a shy country boy named Samuel Ostrowsky, by introducing him to Kiev's academy.  All went smoothly until a fire destroyed the humble home of his parents — the young painter left for Chicago to live with an uncle, who ousted him for not accepting an industrial job (George, n. d., p. 10).  After some preliminary training at the Art Institute of Chicago and a period of designing sets in New York, Ostrowsky crossed the Atlantic again to be trained in the Académie Julian and spent three years in France.  He exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1914. 

Evelyn Marie Stuart's article in 1916 gives a good idea of Ostrowsky's early work, which was his impressionist phase.  Ostrowsky expressed admiration for Alfred Sisley and Claude Monet, to which the sparkling, broken brushwork of   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5087 characters.]  Artist bio

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15 Book References for Samuel Ostrowsky
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
2005 Love, Richard; Michael Worley, Ph.D American Paintings from the Hainsworth Collection 157 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1991 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor); Andrea Ansell Bien The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-1989)
(Exhibition catalog)
468 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)
600 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1979 Yochim, Louise Dunn Role and Impact: The Chicago Society of Artists 297 No
1947 Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1947 685 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
215 No
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