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Abraham Lishinsky (1905–1982) is an American artist of the 20th Century, a painter and playwright, best known for seven murals completed for the federally funded agencies of the New Deal programs of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Russia in 1905, he was raised on Manhattan's East Side and in Brooklyn. He studied at the Educational Alliance and the National Academy of Design, and with John Sloan at the Art Students League.〔"A Guide to New Deal Murals in South Carolina," by Dr. Sue Bridwell Beckham and Susan Giaimo Hiott.〕 == Mural work == Beginning as an assistant to Jean Charlot, the Franco-Mexican muralist, Lishinsky from 1934 to 1943 created seven murals for the PWAP/WPA federal arts programs of the 1930s and 1940s. His earliest mural was painted in collaboration with his mentor Charlot in the lobby of the Straubenmuller Textile High School in Manhattan.〔"New Deal for Art" by Marlene Park & Gerald E. Markowitz, 1977.〕 The mural survives. His largest existing work is a 54-panel, mural that wraps around the auditorium at the former Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn, titled "Major Influences in Civilization."〔"Art for the People -- New Deal Murals on Long Island," edited by David Shapiro, 1978.〕 The mural is restored and in excellent condition. Lishinsky, who was the supervising artist on all the murals he painted, invited his colleague and longtime friend Irving A. Block to work with him to create the Tilden mural. Among the assistants hired to work on the mural was the artist Abram "Al" Lerner, who was later founding director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Lishinsky and Block later collaborated on two other works: A large representational mural on the history of medicine for the Medicine and Public Health pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, sponsored by the American Medical Association,〔"Modernism and Murals at the 1939 New York World's Fair" by Jody Patterson, American Art (Smithsonian Institution), Summer 2010〕〔"Man and His Health: New York World's Fair 1939," Exposition Publications Inc.〕 and "Washington and the Battle of the Bronx," a 15' × 5' historical mural at the Wakefield Station post office in the Bronx, New York, painted under the authority of the United States Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts, and completed in 1943.〔"Art Notes," The New York Times, April 14, 1943.〕 The fate of the World's Fair mural, two 70' × 10' panels and a 30' × 10' panel, is unknown.〔Dawn of a New Day: The New York World's Fair 1939/40," Helen A. Harrison et. al., The Queens Museum, 1980.〕 The Wakefield mural was at least until recent years still in place, but in deteriorating condition. Lishinsky also painted a mural in 1941 for the post office in Woodruff, South Carolina, titled "Cotton Harvest".〔U.S. Orders to 23 artists, ''The New York Times'', September 17, 1939.〕〔New Deal Art in South Carolina, South Carolina State Museum, 1990.〕 The mural was restored in 1999 and placed on exhibit in the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, where it is on permanent loan. Lishinsky painted smaller murals for the solarium at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, believed to have been painted over in subsequent years, and the Protestant chapel, later demolished, at the penitentiary at Rikers Island.〔"The Lost Years: Mural Painting in N.Y. City Under the W.P.A. Federal Art Project, 1935-1943," Greta Berman, 1978.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abraham Lishinsky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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