Jerome Witkin

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1939 –

72

Who is Jerome Witkin?

Jerome Witkin is an American figurative artist whose paintings deal with political, social and cultural themes. As well, Witkin has created 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 ..."

Witkin was born in Brooklyn, New York, the twin brother of photographer Joel Peter Witkin. Recognized as a prodigious talent, at fourteen he entered the High School of Music and Art in New York, and subsequently studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Cooper Union, the Berlin Academy, and the University of Pennsylvania. A Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship enabled him to travel, study and further develop in Europe. After his return to the United States, Witkin received a Guggenheim Fellowship, began exhibiting at galleries in New York and joined the faculty of the Maryland Institute College of Art. He later taught at the Manchester College of Art in England, Moore College of Art, and in 1971 became a professor of art at Syracuse University.

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Born
Sep 13, 1939
Brooklyn
Also known as
  • Jerome P. Witkin
Siblings
Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • Master of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
    Fine art
    (1968 - 1970)
  • Cooper Union
  • The High School of Music & Art
Lived in
  • New York City
    (1971 - )

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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