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Howard Daum

Howard Daum (1918 - 1988) was active/lived in New York, Quebec / Canada, Poland.  Howard Daum is known for Abstract cityscape and landscape painting.

Howard Daum was born in Poland. The family lived in Lodz until Daum was 14 when he and his mother emigrated. They went to Montreal, Canada, where he studied with the painter Alexander Bercovitch from 1934 to 1937.  In 1938 Daum and his mother came to New York and settled in the Bronx.

Upon graduation from high school in 1940, Daum attended the Art Students League on a scholarship.  He worked with Will Barnet, Cameron Booth, Morris Kantor, Harry Sternberg, and Vaclav Vytlacil, an important mentor.  Vytlacil had studied with the modernist painter Hans Hofmann in Munich in 1921, and was a founder of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936.

In 1943 and '44, Daum served in the United States Army in Mississippi, and then returned to New York. In 1944 and '45, he studied with Hans Hofmann at his Greenwich Village school.  Daum's work from this period became more abstract with clear, direct strokes of bright color. In the extremely sha   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7013 characters.]  Artist bio

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