Abstract painting by Abraham Rattner american painter

Beautiful abstract painting by American painter Abraham Rattner: painting on canvas; ink and gouache abstractions
dimensions : frame : 50 cm x 42 cm. Composition 33 cm x 42 cm. original work


Abraham Rattner (July 8, 1895 - February 14, 1978) was an American artist, best known for his richly colored paintings, often on religious subjects. During the First World War, he served in France with the American army as a camoufleur.

Rattner lived in Paris from 1920 to 1940, when he returned to New York. He became known for his rich use of color and the surrealist aspects of his work, often linked to religion. Although during his stay in Paris he met and studied the paintings of Claude Monet, his work is generally closer to that of Georges Rouault and Pablo Picasso. During the Second World War, he again volunteered for camouflage service, but was able to do very little (Culkin, 1980). Later, he taught at several schools, including The New School, New York (1947-1955) and Yale University, New-Haeven, Connecticut (1952-1953).

His work is in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Baltimore Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of the Arts; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida. Harn, Gainesville, Florida; and the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art on the campus of St. Petersburg College in Tarpon Springs, Florida. He designed the stained glass east wall that dominates the interior of the Chicago Loop Synagogue (1960), described by architecture critic Brian de Breffny as "[perhaps] the most beautiful synagogue interior in the United States."

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