Pál Fried

Pál Fried (16 June 1893, Hungary – 6 March 1976, New York City) [Ancestry.com. "Social Security Death Index" [database on-line] . Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2008. The index erroneously gives his month of death as April. "Pal Fried" (obituary), "The New York Times", March 7, 1976, p. 47.] was a Hungarian artist. His oil paintings were usually of dancers, nudes, and portraits, and his subjects were almost always women, although he also painted Paris, seascapes, and cowboys and landscapes of the American West. He signed his paintings, in the European manner, with his surname first as "Fried Pál".

Fried immigrated to the United States in 1946 after World War II, ["Pal Fried" (obituary), "The New York Times", March 7, 1976, p. 47.] and became a U.S. citizen in 1953. [Ancestry.com. "New York Petitions for Naturalization" [database on-line] . Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007.] He lived in Los Angeles and New York City.

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