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Leon Goldin
Born(1923-01-16)January 16, 1923
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJanuary 30, 2009(2009-01-30) (aged 86)
New York City, NY
OccupationArtist
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship, Prix de Rome, Fulbright Scholarship, National Institute of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, Ford Foundation Purchase Prize
Academic background
EducationMFA University of Iowa
Alma materBFA Art Institute of Chicago
Academic work
DisciplineAbstract expressionism, High modernism
InstitutionsColumbia University
California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC)
Cooper Union
Websitehttps://leongoldin.com/

Leon Goldin (1923–2009) was a post-war American painter and printmaker who worked in the tradition of abstract expressionism and high modernism.[1] Goldin was born in 1923, earning his BFA at the Art Institute of Chicago and later his MFA at the University of Iowa, where he studied intaglio printmaking under Mauricio Lasansky.[2] In 1953 he won a Fulbright Scholarship in Painting.[3] In 1955 he was awarded the prestigious Prix de Rome, allowing him to work and study as a Fellow at the American Academy of Rome between 1955 and 1958.[4] In 1959, Goldin returned to New York, where he was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship.[5] From 1964 to 1992, Goldin worked as a professor of art at Columbia University[6] and later as the department chair. During this period up until his death in 2009, Goldin was represented by Kraushaar Galleries[7] in New York. In 1971, he was listed in the Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists.[8]

Goldin was affiliated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement[9] between 1950 and 1954, during which time he pioneered work in Color Field and unconventional printmaking techniques. In New York, he was closely aligned with the Abstract Expressionist painters of the New York School, associating with and befriending other artists including David Lund, Karl Schrag, Jack Sonnenberg, Dan Hodermarsky, Stephen Pace (artist), Emily Mason, and Wolf Kahn.[10] These disparate artists took inspiration from the landscape of Deer Isle, Maine, and many of them took up residence there part of the year, where they formed a tight-knit artistic community[11]

Goldin's work can be found in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art.,[12] LACMA,[13] the Brooklyn Museum,[14] the National Academy of Design,[12] the National Gallery of Art,[15] the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,[16] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[17] His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art,[18] the Oakland Museum,[13] the Felix Landau Gallery,[12] and L'Attico galleria d'arte in Rome[12]

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  1. ^ "Leon Goldin: A Journey Made Visible". New York Times. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
  2. ^ "Leon Goldin". Annex Galleries.
  3. ^ "Fulbright Grantee Directory". Fulbright Online.
  4. ^ "Fellows Directory". American Academy in Rome. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
  5. ^ "Leon Goldin". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
  6. ^ "Art: Pascin in Paris, Painter and Draftsman". New York Times. 28 October 1984. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
  7. ^ "Leon Goldin". Kraushaar Galleries. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
  8. ^ Cummings, Paul (1998). Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists. Cavendish Publishing Limited. p. 140. ISBN 9781135585464.
  9. ^ Albright, Thomas (January 1985). Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945 - 1980: An Illustrated History. University of California Press. p. 279. ISBN 9780520051935.
  10. ^ "Winter Landscape". Christie's. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  11. ^ "DIAA 50th Anniversary". Deer Isle Artists Association. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  12. ^ a b c d "Leon Goldin". National Academy of Design.
  13. ^ a b "Artist Museums Leon Goldin". AskArt.
  14. ^ "Leon Goldin". The Brooklyn Museum.
  15. ^ "Leon Goldin". National Gallery of Art.
  16. ^ "Leon Goldin". The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. 28 December 2014.
  17. ^ "Leon Goldin". Smithsonian American Art Museum.
  18. ^ "Leon Goldin". Museum of Modern Art.


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