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4 unusual facts about Raphael Soyer


Lloyd Goodrich

He wrote extensively on American artists, including Edward Hopper, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Raphael Soyer and Reginald Marsh.

Raphael Soyer

Raphael Soyer and his identical twin brother, Moses, were born in Borisoglebsk, Tambov, a southern province of Russia in 1899.

Soyer was hired in 1940, along with eight other prominent American artists, to document dramatic scenes and characters during the production of the film The Long Voyage Home, a cinematic adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's plays.

Soyer

Raphael Soyer (1899–1987), Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker


Andrew Ladis

Later in life, he also developed an interest in American art and wrote a series of essays on Gerald Brockhurst, Lucy May Stanton, George Biddle, Raphael Soyer, Paul Cadmus, and Andrée Ruellan.

Leonard Everett Fisher

Between 1932 and 1942, Leonard Everett Fisher continued his training at the Heckscher Foundation (NY), with Moses and Raphael Soyer (NY), with Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League of New York, and Serge Chermayeff at Brooklyn College.


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