Isaac Soyer

Isaac Soyer

Infobox Artist
name = Isaac Soyer


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deathdate = July 8, 1981
Manhattan, New York, United States of America
nationality = American
field = Painter
movement = Social realist
works = "Employment Agency", "Portrait of My Father", "Rebecca", and "The Art Beauty Shop"

Isaac Soyer (1902 — July 8, 1981) was a social realist painter and often portrayed working-class people of New York City in his paintings.cite web
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Biography

He was the youngest of three siblings, the others being Moses Soyer and Raphael Soyer, both twins. In 1912, his parents emigrated to New York. In his life, he has created several paintings, the most notable being "Employment Agency".

A WPA artist, Soyer's "Employment Agency" reveals the social realities of the years of the Great Depression.

Soyer worked at a number of institutions in his life, mostly teaching art:
*Bell Aircraft Corporation in Buffalo, New York during World War II
*Albright Art School at Buffalo, New York during the years 1941-44
*Art Institute of Buffalo and Niagara Falls Art School during the 1940s
*Educational Alliance Art School in New York during the 1950s
*New School for Social Research in 1968
*Art Students League of New York in 1969cite web
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accessdate = 2007-04-28 ] Isaac Soyer painted portraits of friends and relatives and vignettes of working-class life. Several of his principal works are in the collections of important museums such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, and the Dallas Museum of Art.

Soyer died of a heart attack at Lenox Hill Hospital on July 8, 1981 at age 79 and was residing in Manhattan at the time. cite web
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