Abraham Harriton
Abraham Harriton was a Romanian-born American modernist artist and social realism painter in the United States.
Abraham Harriton
Cyril Mipaas · [Abraham Harriton], 1938 Aug. 16 / Cyril Mipaas, photographer. Photographic print: 1 item: b w · Public domain
- Name
- Abraham Harriton
- Born
- 1893
- Birthplace
- Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
- Died
- 1986 (aged 92–93)
- Place of death
- Long Island, New York, U.S.
- Field
- Painting
- Training
- National Academy of Design
- Movement
- Modernist Social realism
- Nationality
- Romania
- Occupation
- painter
- Movements
- modernism
- Languages
- Romanian
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• Name — Abraham Harriton • Born — 1893 • Birthplace — Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania • Died — 1986 (aged 92–93) • Place of death — Long Island, New York, U.S. • Field — Painting • Training — National Academy of Design • Movement — Modernist Social realism
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Abraham Harriton was a painter, born in 1893 in Bucharest and died in 1986. Both events are recorded by the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
Early life and education
Early life and education
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.
Career
Career
Harriton later become a teacher at the National Academy of Design, and, like many other artists during the Great Depression, received commissions from the Works Progress Administration during the 1930s. His 1939 mural for the Augusta, Georgia post office Plantation, Transportation, Education, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, is on display at the Augusta Convention and Visitor's Bureau. Harrinton had strong ties with the American Left, displaying his works at exhibits hosted by the John Reed Club.
Personal life
Personal life
At the time of his death in 1986, Harriton was survived by his wife, Estelle, their son, Charles and their daughter, Maria.
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Bucharest.
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- 1.Abraham Harriton papers. Syracuse University Library Finding Aids.
- 2.AskArt. Abraham Harriton. 2011.
- 3.Hemingway, Andrew. Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956. Yale University Press. 293. 2002. 0-300-09220-2.
- 4.Abraham Harriton papers, 1910-1986. Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
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