Isaac Soyer

Isaac Soyer studied at National Academy of Design, Cooper Union and The Educational Alliance. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City. Work by Isaac Soyer is recorded in the collections of Bar-David Museum of Art and Judaica, Georgia Museum of Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum.

• Name — Isaac Soyer • Birth Name — Isaac Schoar • Born — April 26, 1902 • Birthplace — Borisoglebsk or Tambov (disputed), Russia • Died — July 8, 1981 • Place of death — Manhattan, New York, United States • Education — National Academy of Design, Cooper Union, Educational Alliance • Movement — Social realist • Family — * Raphael Soyer (brother) • Moses Soyer (brother) • Known for — Painter • Works — Employment Agency (1937)

He was born as Isaac Schoar on April 26, 1902, in Russia. He was the fourth of six children; his older twin brothers Moses Soyer and Raphael Soyer were also painters. Their father, Abraham Shauer, a Hebrew scholar, writer and teacher, raised his six children in an intellectual environment in which much emphasis was placed on academic and artistic pursuits. Their mother, Bella, was an embroiderer. Their cousin was painter and meteorologist Joshua Zalman Holland. Due to the many difficulties for the Jewish population in the late Russian Empire, the Soyer family was forced to emigrate in 1912 to the United States, where they ultimately settled in the Bronx. The family name changed from Schoar to Soyer during immigration. Isaac Soyer studied at the National Academy of Design, Cooper Union, Educational Alliance and studied in Paris and Madrid. Soyer painted portraits of friends and relatives and vignettes of working-class life. He taught classes at the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Soyer's work Employment Agency (1937) reveals the social realities of the years of the Great Depression. It features the image of a Black woman and three white men waiting for a job interview response. During World War II, Soyer worked at Bell Aircraft Corporation in Buffalo, New York. Soyer was an art educator at a number of institutions. From 1941 until 1947 he taught at Albright Art School at the University of Buffalo; and from 1947 until 1971 at Brooklyn Museum Art School. He additionally taught at Art Institute of Buffalo, Niagara Falls Art School, Educational Alliance, New School for Social Research (1968), Art Students League of New York (1969).