- Hananiah Harari
Hananiah Harari (
August 29 ,1912 –July 19 ,2000 ) was an American painter and illustrator.He was born in
Rochester, New York , and studied at theSyracuse University School of Fine Arts. He went toParis in the 1930s, where he studied withFernand Léger from 1932–34; he also studied withMarcel Gromaire andAndré Lhote . Following a visit toPalestine he returned to the United States in 1935.Harari was active in leftist politics, and helped found the American Artists' Union in 1936. His first New York exhibition was in 1939, at Mercury Gallery. He worked in both a semi-abstract style, and a precise realist style; inspired by the work of
William Michael Harnett , he painted manytrompe l'oeil still life s.In the 1940s he produced artwork for the covers of magazines, including "Fortune". He also contributed cartoons to "
The New Masses ", which led to his beingblacklist ed in the 1950s during the McCarthy era.In 1997 a traveling retrospective of his work was mounted at the
Montclair Art Museum inNew Jersey .He died in
Halthorne, New York in 2000.External links
* [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/harari92.htm 1992 Interview with Harari] conducted by G. Stavitsky for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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