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Jerome Witkin

Jerome Witkin

1939
PaintingAbstract ExpressionismExpressionismRealism
Representation
None documented
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Institutional Exhibitions
5
Works in Collection
13
Assets Indexed
3
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
70%
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Cultural Positioning

Movements
  • • Abstract Expressionism
  • • Expressionism
  • • Realism
  • • Social Realism
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About

Why this artist matters now

Jerome Witkin is an American figurative artist whose paintings deal with political, social and cultural themes, along with serious portraiture that melds the sitter's social position with a speaking likeness that reveals inner character. Witkin has been succinctly characterized as "a virtuoso figurative painter whose work mixes elements of the old masters, social realism and Abstract Expressionism ..."

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Movement
Abstract Expressionism
Medium
Painting
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Institutional

Museum Collections

Canonical record

Artworks (5)

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Images

Artsy artwork: From Auchwitz (1980)
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Artsy artwork: The Names (2019)
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Artsy artwork: Trish Rounds (2005)
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Artsy artwork: Addict (2016)
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Artsy artwork: Sara (2006)
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Artsy artist portrait
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Two Men on a Bench (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Movements and affiliations

AB
Abstract Expressionism
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EX
Expressionism
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RE
Realism
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SO
Social Realism
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Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
Background

Education

University of Pennsylvania
Visual Arts
High School of Music & Art
Visual Arts
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Visual Arts
Cooper Union
Visual Arts
Prussian Academy of Arts
Visual Arts
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