Abraham Harriton

Who was Abraham Harriton?

Abraham Harriton was a Romanian-born Jewish modernist artist and social realism painter in the United States.

Born in 1893 in Bucharest, then the Kingdom of Romania, Harriton studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1908 until 1915. There, he studied under artists such as Kenyon Cox, Emil Carlsen and George DeForest Brush. Harriton himself later become a teacher at the Academy, and, like many other artists during the Great Depression, received commissions from the Works Progress Administration during the 1930s.

During that era, Harrinton had strong ties with the American Left, displaying his works at exhibits put on by the John Reed Club.