- Abraham Rattner
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name = Abraham Rattner
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birthdate = 1893
location =Poughkeepsie, New York
deathdate = 1978
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nationality = American
field =Surrealism
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awards =Abraham Rattner (1893-1978) was an artist best known for paintings with religious themes that had very rich colors.
He was born in
Poughkeepsie, New York and was a specialist incamouflage for the army inWorld War I .He first studied architecture at
George Washington University along with painting at theCorcoran School of Art . However, he soon decided to concentrate on painting and study at thePennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1917 and 1919). Rattner lived in Paris from 1920 till 1940 when he returned to New York. He taught at several schools, includingThe New School , New York (1947–55) andYale University ,New Haven, CT , (1952–53).He is known for his richly coloured and surrealistic work, much religious in tone, and although he met and studied
Claude Monet while inParis his work is stylistically attuned toGeorges Rouault andPablo Picasso .In 1924, Abraham Rattner married Bettina Bedwell, an American art student and fashion illustrator. Bettina became the Paris fashion correspondent for the New York News-Chicago Tribune Syndicate.In 1947, Bettina Bedwell suddenly died due to a kidney infection. In 1949, Rattner married Esther Gentle, a New York City sculptor, painter, printmaker, and business woman who ran an art reproductions business and a
NYC art gallery.He was the subject of
Henry Miller ’s 1968 "A Word About Abraham Rattner".His work is in the
Albright-Knox Art Gallery ,Buffalo, New York ;Art Institute of Chicago ;Baltimore Museum of Art ;Detroit Institute of Arts ;Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts ,Montgomery, AL ,Montgomery ;Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ,Philadelphia Museum of Art ;Phillips Collection ,Washington, DC. ;Wadsworth Athenaeum ,Hartford, Connecticut ;Whitney Museum of American Art ,New York City ;Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art ,Gainesville , FL; and The Leepa-Rattner Museum inTarpon Springs, FL .References
* [http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?searchtype=BIO&artist=30005 Askart biogrpahy]
*A complete and comprehensive biography of Abraham Rattner can be found at the Smithsonian Archive of American Art website: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/rattabra.htmExternal links
* [http://www.spcollege.edu/central/museum/ Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art]
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* [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/rattabra.htm Abraham Rattner and Esther Gentle Papers at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art]
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