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Georges Schreiber
1904
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PM Competition: The Artist as Reporter
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1940
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Three Centuries of American Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1938
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Georges Schreiber is an American painter born in 1904 who worked in a documentary realist mode, capturing social observation and reportage through paint. Based in Brussels, his work emerged during the 1930s and 1940s when social engagement and the artist's role as witness were central to American artistic practice. He exhibited at MoMA, including in the 1940 exhibition PM Competition: The Artist as Reporter.
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