Wilfrid Zogbaum
Wilfrid "Zog" Zogbaum (1915 – January 7, 1965) was an American painter, sculptor, and educator. He was also a commercial photographer in the late 1940s, and started a sculpture studio in Montauk.
Also recorded as Wilfred Zogbaum · Wilfred M. Zogbaum
Wilfrid Zogbaum
- Born
- 1915 · Newport.
- Died
- 1965 · New York City.
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- United States
- Occupation
- painter · sculptor · printmaker · photographer
- Education
- St. George's School
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Wilfrid Zogbaum was born in 1915 in Newport, Rhode Island. Zogbaum's father was Admiral Rufus F. Zogbaum, Jr., and his grandfather was painter Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum. He studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design for two summers. Followed by study at Yale School of Fine Arts (now Yale School of Art), under John Sloan, and Hans Hoffman. Giorgio Cavallon and George McNeil were the class aids in Hoffman's class. He was a founding member of American Abstract Artists in 1937. In 1937, Zogbaum was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to studied in Europe. While in Europe he met Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo and László Moholy-Nagy, Fernand Léger and Wassily Kandinsky. He served as a photographer in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II. He was an associate professor at University of California, Berkeley (U.C. Berkeley) in 1957 and 1961–1962. Zogbaum's work has been exhibited in a number of galleries, including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York City, Manny Silverman Gallery in Los Angeles, and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York City. His papers are held at the Archives of American Art.
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Wilfrid Zogbaum (1915 – 1965) was a painter and sculptor. Wilfrid Zogbaum was born in Newport, according to the Getty Union List of Artist Names and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek records the fuller form Newport, Rhode Island. Wilfrid Zogbaum died in New York, according to the Getty Union List of Artist Names and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek records New York, NY as a place of activity.
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- 1.Artists website (subscription required)
- 2.J. C. Haley. Wilfrid Zogbaum, Art: Berkeley. Online Archive of California, California Digital Library. 1966.
- 3.Wilfrid Zogbaum. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- 4.Founding Members. American Abstract Artists.
- 5.Wilfrid Zogbaum. Anita Shapolsky Gallery NYC.
- 6.Wilfrid Zogbaum, Artslant
- 7.Wilfrid Zogbaum 1915–1965, US. ArtFacts.net.
- 8.Archives of American Art. Summary of the Wilfrid Zogbaum papers, 1924–1966 – Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. si.edu.
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