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Joseph Solman Art

American, 1909-1908
Brought to America from Russia as a child in 1912, Joseph Solman was a prodigious draftsman and knew, in his earliest teens, that he would be an artist. He went straight from high school to the National Academy of Design, though he says he learned more by sketching in the subway on the way back from school late at night: people “pose perfectly when they’re asleep.” In 1929, Solman saw the inaugural show at the Museum of Modern Art featuring Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Cezanne. It changed his life – and his art. Joseph Solman was, with Mark Rothko, the unofficial co-leader of The Ten, a group of expressionist painters who exhibited as the “Whitney Dissenters” at the Mercury Galleries in New York in 1938. A champion of modernism, Solman was elected an editor of Art Front Magazine when its other editors, art historian Meyer Shapiro and critic Harold Rosenberg, were still partial to Social Realism In 1964, The Times, discussing his well-known subway gouaches (done while commuting to his some-time job as a racetrack pari-mutuel clerk), called him a “Pari-Mutuel Picasso.” In 1985, on the occasion of a 50-year retrospective, The Washington Post wrote: “It appears to have dawned, at last, on many collectors that this is art that has already stood the acid test of time.” We had the pleasure of the meeting the artist a few times at his home which was over the original Second Avenue Deli in the East Village.
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Artist: Joseph Solman
"Figure Study" Joseph Solman, Blue and Sepia, Pastel Colors Seated Study
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Solman Figure Study, circa 1959-60 Signed with initials lower left Gouache on Racing Form newspaper Sight 9 x 7 inches Provenance Private Collection, Montecito, California Pr...
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1950s Modern Joseph Solman Art

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Paper, Gouache, Newsprint

Monotype Print Painting Garden Scene Table Chair Joseph Solman American Art WPA
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
Monotype Painting Title: Table and Chairs, 1980 Medium: monotype or monoprint painting Size: image 13 x 9.5,overall with frame 23 x 20 Hand signed and dated lower right Provenance...
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20th Century Modern Joseph Solman Art

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Monotype

John Begg Jr., Expressionist Oil Painting on Masonite by Joseph Solman
By Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
In the mid-1960s Joseph Solman (American, 1909 - 2008) was commissioned to create portraits of the Begg family. This is a portrait of John Begg Jr., the son of the mid-century nuclear family...
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1960s Expressionist Joseph Solman Art

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Masonite, Oil

Monhegan Cove, Impressionist Gouache Painting by Joseph Solman 1937
By Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joseph Solman, American (1909 - ) Title: Monhegan Cove Year: 1937 Medium: Gouache on black paper, signed and dated l.c. Size: 8.5 x 12 inches Frame Size: 18 x 22 inches
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1930s Color-Field Joseph Solman Art

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Gouache

The Red Beard
By Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joseph Solman, American (1909 - 2008) Title: The Red Beard Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 20.25 x 12 inches Frame Size: 30 x 22 inches
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1960s Color-Field Joseph Solman Art

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Oil

Old Fire Wagon, Monotype
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Solman (1909-2008), a New York expressionist painter, hovered near the leading edge of the avant garde through most of his career, yet his works never departed entirely from r...
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20th Century Modern Joseph Solman Art

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Monotype

John Begg Sr., Expressionist Portrait by Joseph Solman
By Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
In the mid-1960s Joseph Solman (American, 1909 - 2008) was commissioned to create portraits of the Begg family. This is a portrait of John Begg Sr., the patriarch of the mid-century ...
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1960s Expressionist Joseph Solman Art

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Oil, Canvas

WPA American Scene Modernism 20th Century NYC Industrial "Cellar with Horseshoe"
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
"Cellar with Horseshoe" WPA American Scene Modernism 20th Century NYC Industrial Joseph Solman (1909-2008) "Cellar with Horseshoe," 16 x 20 inches, oil on canvas circa 1938, initial...
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1930s American Modern Joseph Solman Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Rail Yard" Urban Industrial WPA American Scene Drawing NYC Mid-Century
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
"Rail Yard" Urban Industrial WPA American Scene Drawing NYC Mid-Century. Initialed "JS" upper right Solman was a pivotal figure in the development of 20th century American art. He ...
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1930s American Modern Joseph Solman Art

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Paper, Gouache

American Abstract Color Monotype Painting Tar Cart #2 Joseph Solman WPA Artist
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
"Tar Cart #2" by Joseph Solman (American, 1909-2008) Hand signed recto Joseph Solman (January 25, 1909 – April 16, 2008) was a Jewish American painter, a founder of The Ten, a group...
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20th Century American Modern Joseph Solman Art

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Monotype

Portrait of a Seated Woman
By Joseph Solman
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed with initials center left. Measures 32" x 23.5" including the frame. Provenance: ACA Galleries, NYC Bradbury Art and Antiques, Wiscasset, Maine Brought to...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Joseph Solman Art

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Oil

Oil Painting Interior Scene Chair w Chinese Rug Joseph Solman American Art WPA
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Solman (1909-2008), Chair with Chinese Rug, oil paint on masonite, initialed JS on recto, titled and signed "J.S." verso, Dimensions 14" x 10" Framed to 21 X 17 Provenance...
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20th Century Modern Joseph Solman Art

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Oil, Board

Provincetown Dock, Modern Gouache Painting by Joseph Solman 1962
By Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joseph Solman, American (1909 - ) Title: Provincetown Dock Year: 1962 Medium: Gouache on black paper, signed and dated l.c. Size: 9 x 11.5 inches Frame Size: 19 x 22 inches
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1960s Color-Field Joseph Solman Art

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Gouache

Marian Begg, Expressionist Oil on Masonite Portrait Painting by Joseph Solman
By Joseph Solman
Located in Long Island City, NY
In the mid-1960s Joseph Solman (American, 1909 - 2008) was commissioned to create portraits of the Begg family. This is a portrait of Marian Begg, the mother in the mid-century nuclear family...
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1960s Expressionist Joseph Solman Art

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Oil, Masonite

1936 Woodblock Print Venus of 23rd St. Skid Row Woodcut NYC Great Depression WPA
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
A great New york City street scene in a modernist realist style. done in the the great depression period. Mat is 17.5x14, sheet measures 13x10 image is 10x4.75 Joseph Solman (Janua...
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20th Century Modern Joseph Solman Art

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Woodcut

"Garage in Provincetown" Joseph Solman, Urban Landscape by Expressionist Artist
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Solman Garage in Provincetown Signed with initials lower right Graphite on paper 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches Joseph Solman was born in 1909 in Vitebsk, in what is now Belarus, the...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Joseph Solman Art

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Paper, Graphite

Studio Interior Mid 20th Century American Scene Modern WPA Still Life Realism
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
Studio Interior Scene Mid 20th Century American Modern WPA Still Life Realism The painting measures 10 x 12 inches. Framed, the work is 13 1/4 x 15 1/...
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1930s American Realist Joseph Solman Art

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Oil, Board

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