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    Artist

  • Schiff, John, 1907-1976

    • Title

  • William Zorach : sculpting a clergyman from Brooklyn, ca. 1959

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white ; 8 x 10 inches / 20.5 x 25.5 cm., digital photograph

  • Summary

    The image shows a photograph of William Zorach modelling the face of a man, who is a clergyman from Brooklyn, sitting behind Zorach to the right in the image. The verso of the photograph has "Clergyman from / Brooklyn / Zorach ca. 1958-59" written in pencil.

  • Depicted

    Zorach, William, 1889-1966

  • Subject

    Artists; Portraits; Sculptors; Sculptors, United States; Sculpture

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    John (Hans) and Trude Schiff Collection, AR 25082

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Biographical/Historical Information

The sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer William Zorach was born as Zorach Gorfinkel into a Jewish family in Jurbarkas, Lithuania (then a part of the Russian Empire) in 1887. The family emigrated to the United States in 1894, and Zorach studied at the Cleveland School of Art and the National Academy of Design in New York. He later studied in Paris and was among the first American artists to introduce European styles such as Fauvism and Cubism to American modernism: some of his works were displayed in the Armory show in 1913. Beginning in the 1920s, Zorach worked primarily as a sculptor, and for more than thirty years, he taught sculpture at the Art Students League of New York.

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Citation

Schiff, John: William Zorach : sculpting a clergyman from Brooklyn, ca. 1959, Leo Baeck Institute, F 191 AR 25082.