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Date 20th Century
Classification Painting
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 14 × 9 in. (35.6 × 22.9 cm)
Frame 18 ¼ × 13 ¼ in. (46.4 × 33.7 cm)
Inscriptions Signed (lower left)
Born 1899 in Borisoglebsk, Russia
Raphael Soyer
Raphael Soyer painted numerous portraits and scenes of Depression-era reality, streetscapes and pedestrians, shoppers and workers. His empathy for working class struggles resulted in paintings that looked at the transient with respect and introspection. He was relentless advocate for realism, never persuaded by what came into fashion. Abram Lerner, a past director of the Hirschhorn Museum, once called him the “dean of American realist painters”.
Died 1987 in New York City, NY
Major Exhibits:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Phillips Collection
Carnegie Museum of Art
