EDWARD BIBERMAN AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS VINTAGE OLD ART SERIGRAPH PRINT

Description: EDWARD BIBERMAN SERIGRAPH SIGNED AND TITLED THE RAINBOW SIGN 30/125 SHEET SECURED BETWEEN 2 SHEETS OF GLASS. DATES TO THE 60S CONDITION: SHEET APPEARS TO BE FINE NOT VIEWED OUT OF FRAME. FRAME HAS SCRATCHES CHIPS AND WEAR THROUGHOUT. FRAME BACKBOARD HAS BOWED INWARD AND IS SLIGHTLY LOOSE FROM FRAME. INNER FRAME HAS SCATTERED DEBRIS. SHEET 18 BY 24 INCHES FRAME 22 3/4 BY 28 3/4 INCHES IMPORTANT PRINT BY EDWARD BIBERMAN CATALOGED IN THE BOOK TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCE: FORTY YEARS OF PAINTINGS BY EDWARD BIBERMAN Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Russian emigrant parents, Edward Biberman became a painter and muralist of Social-Realist subjects, as well as a portraitist and painter of desert landscapes.He was a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance in Philadelphia and turned to art as a career while recuperating from a broken leg shortly after earning that degree. He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and then spent three years studying in Paris. He returned to the United States in 1929, and painted in Maine and New York City, where he did portraits of artists, actors, and dancers. He had the honor of being selected by Alfred Barr and Jere Abbott, co-directors of the newly founded Museum of Modern Art, to participate in a show of up and coming young artists called "Forty-six Under Thirty-five."In 1930, he first visited the Southwest, spending the summer in Taos, New Mexico, where he associated with Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin as well as many other artists. In 1931, he lived for the summer on a Navajo trading post at Monument Valley on the Arizona and Utah border, and did portraits of Navajos and painted desert landscapes, including one titled Mitten Buttes, Monument Valley.He moved permanently to the Los Angeles area in 1936, a place he first visited on his trip to Monument Valley. During the following years, he was commissioned for murals throughout the country, and his images of Navajos and the desert appear in a number of his 1930s murals. As a muralist, he was influenced by Diego Rivera, whom he had met in New York.Biberman taught at Art Center College in Los Angeles from 1930 to 1950, and lectured widely on art subjects for the University Extension of U.C.L.A.He died in Los Angeles in 1986.Some of his Arizona paintings, as well as many of his other works, are illustrated in his book, Time and Circumstance, Forty Years of Painting, the Ward Ritchie Press, 1968.Submitted by Ron Gerba, Prescott, ArizonaSource:Edward Biberman, Time and Circumstance: Forty Years of Painting by Edward Biberman Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 23, 1904 of Russian emigres, Edward Biberman earned a degree in economics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1924. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and in Paris for five years. He worked in New York City before settling in Los Angeles in 1936. He taught at the Art Center College from 1938-50, and from 1950-1980s lectured at UCLA Extension, UC Irving Extension, UC San Diego Extension, Loyola University, and others.He authored two books on his paintings: The Best Untold, (1954) and Time and Circumstance (1968).Biberman died on January 27, 1986 at his Hollywood Hills home. His paintings include portraits, figure studies, western landscapes, architectural subjects, and social themes.Memberships:National Society of Mural Painters.Exhibition:American Artists Congress, 1936; San Francisco Art Association, 1937; Golden Gate International Exposition 1939; California Art Club, 1943; Whitney Museum (NYC), 1953; 35 solo exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, and California.Collections:Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; New Mexico Art Association; Houston Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Palm Springs Desert Museum; CSL; Stanford Univ. Library; Portland (OR) Library; Triton Museum (Santa Clara); DeSaisset Museum (Univ. of Santa Clara); LA Post Office (mural); LA Federal Bldg (mural); Venice (CA) Post Office (mural).Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"Interview with the artist or his/her family; Who's Who in California; Who's Who in American Art 1936-62; SF Chronicle, 1-31-1986 and SF Examiner, 2-3-1986 (obits). Edward Biberman (October 23, 1904 – January 27, 1986) was an American artist active in the mid-twentieth century. His work ranged from stylised portraits to history-inspired murals, and drew on the emerging urban landscapes of southern California, and on current events such as the Great Depression, the Second World War, and labour unrest. Biberman was born into a prosperous Philadelphia family of Russian Jewish immigrants, and studied economics at the Wharton School. His later studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, followed by three years in Paris, led to his decision to become a full-time artist. He lived in New York City from 1929 to 1936, where he came into contact with the Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco; thanks to their influence, Biberman became a champion of public murals. In 1930, he was named one of the "46 Under 35" younger artists featured in a Museum of Modern Art exhibition. In 1931, he lived for the summer in a Navajo settlement at Monument Valley, where his work focused on both the Navajo people and on their desert surroundings. His experiences there inspired in him a love of the southwestern United States. Following his arrival in Los Angeles in 1936, the city which would inspire some of his best-known work, he decided to move there permanently. By 1940, the Spring Street lobby of the newly constructed U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles featured the federally commissioned mural Los Angeles Prehistoric Spanish Colonial, by Biberman. In 1965, when the Post Office was moved and the Courthouse remodeled, all murals were removed and placed in storage. Fortunately, Los Angeles Prehistoric Spanish Colonial was returned to the building's Spring Street lobby in 2003. Ironically, this is the same Courthouse in which The House Un-American Activities Committee held the first of the infamous Hollywood Blacklist hearings. As a result of refusing to cooperate with the committee, his brother, Herbert Biberman, a screenwriter and director, and nine others were accused of contempt of congress. They became known as the Hollywood Ten. Ultimately, both of the Biberman brothers, their wives, and other members of their circle were accused of being Communists during the course of the HUAC hearings. Though initially popular for the clean lines and crisp colours of his work, his career never recovered from the blow it received during this time. Despite this, he lived in Los Angeles for the rest of his life.Preceding Biberman's move to California, the artist became intrigued by the allure of the Southwest desert. In the early 1930s he acquainted himself with Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin. Like O’Keeffe, Biberman painters modified realist painting by applying a modernist aesthetic. After moving to Los Angeles, Biberman became an essential part of the mid-century Los Angeles art scene. He often painted the figure as a way of addressing issues of race, immigration, labor, and ensuing social inequality around the world. His painting of The Biafran Child has become a symbol for the future of our children lest we mend our ways and was under consideration for a commemorative stamp for the benefit of the homeless children of Haiti.Biberman wrote two books about his paintings, The Best Untold and Time and Circumstance. From 1938 to 1950, he taught at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, California (now known as Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,) and lectured widely on art subjects for the University Extension of UCLA. In the 1960s, Biberman hosted television programs on art, including Dialogues in Art from 1967 to 1968.Biberman was married for 51 years to Sonja Dahl Biberman (1910–2007), an artist in her own right. His great-nephew is Jeremy Strick, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Edward Biberman died of cancer in 1986

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