Abraham Harriton

Abraham Harriton was a Romanian-born American modernist artist and social realism painter in the United States.[1]

Abraham Harriton
Harriton working on a painting for the 1939 World's Fair, 1938
Born1893
Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
Died1986 (aged 92–93)
Long Island, New York, U.S.
NationalityRomanian, American
EducationNational Academy of Design
Known forPainting
MovementModernist
Social realism

Early life and education

Born in 1893 in Bucharest, then the Kingdom of Romania, Harriton studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1908 until 1915. There, he studied under artists such as Kenyon Cox, Emil Carlsen and George DeForest Brush.

Career

Harriton later become a teacher at the National Academy of Design, and, like many other artists during the Great Depression, received commissions from the Works Progress Administration during the 1930s.[2]

His 1939 mural for the Augusta, Georgia post office Plantation, Transportation, Education, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, is on display at the Augusta Convention and Visitor's Bureau.

Harrinton had strong ties with the American Left, displaying his works at exhibits hosted by the John Reed Club.[3]

Personal life

At the time of his death in 1986, Harrinton was survived by his wife, Estelle, their son, Charles and their daughter, Maria.[4]

References
  1. "Abraham Harriton papers". Syracuse University Library Finding Aids. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  2. "Abraham Harriton". AskArt. 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
  3. Hemingway, Andrew (2002). Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 293. ISBN 0-300-09220-2.
  4. "Abraham Harriton papers, 1910-1986". Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
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