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Portrait of Barbara Begg

Name: Portrait Of Barbara Begg | Joseph Solman
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 74882

Joseph Solman

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American (1909–2008)

Date: circa 1960
Oil on Canvas, initialed middle left
Size: 20 x 12.5 in. (50.8 x 31.75 cm)
Frame Size: 27 x 19 inches

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Framed

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about Portrait of Barbara Begg

In the mid-1960s Joseph Solman (American, 1909 - 2008) was commissioned to create portraits of the Begg family.

This is a portrait of Barbara Begg, the young daughter in the mid-century nuclear family. While all the portraits are stylistically the same, each bears its own color palette, Barbara’s colors are teal and purple.

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About The Artist: Joseph Solman

Joseph Solman (January 25, 1909 – April 16, 2008) was a Jewish American painter, a founder of The Ten, a group of New York City Expressionist painters in the 1930s. His best known works include his "Subway Gouaches" depicting travellers on the New York subways. Born in Vitebsk, Belarus, he was brought to America from Belarus as a child in 1912, Solman was a prodigious draftsman and knew, in his earliest teens, that he would be an artist....

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About The Medium: Oil

Process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. Commonly used drying oils include linseed oil, poppy seed oil, walnut oil, and safflower oil.

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