David Aronson
{{Short description|American painter (1923–2015)}}
{{infobox artist
| image = File:David_Aronson_ca._1940.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1923|10|28}}
| birth_place = Shilova, Lithuania
| death_date = {{death date and age|2015|07|02|1923|10|28}}
| death_place = Natick, Massachusetts
| alma_mater = Hebrew Teachers College
| spouse = Georgianna Nyman
}}
File:Christ_Before_Pilate_by_David_Aronson,_1949.jpg
David Aronson (October 28, 1923 – July 2, 2015){{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=David Aronson, Expressionist Artist, Dies at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/arts/david-aronson-expressionist-artist-dies-at-91.html |accessdate=9 February 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=14 July 2015}} was a painter and Professor of Art at Boston University.
Biography
Aronson was born in Šiluva, Lithuania in 1923 to an Orthodox Jewish family.{{cite web | url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/david-aronson-146 | title=David Aronson | Smithsonian American Art Museum }}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OncMAQAAIAAJ&q=David+Aronson+1923|title = Fourteen Americans|year = 1946}}{{cite web | author=| year=2011 | title=David Aronson papers, 1935-1983 | work=Research collections | publisher=Archives of American Art | url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/david-aronson-papers-6716 | accessdate=17 Jun 2011}} His father was a rabbi. He taught at Boston University from 1955 to his death in 2015, where he formed the Fine Art Department. As an artist, he exhibited in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Rome, Berlin and Copenhagen, among others. His work is represented in over forty museums.
Aronson's work is associated with the school of Boston Expressionism.{{cite book|last1=Bookbinder|first1=Judith|title=Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism|date=2005|publisher=University of New Hampshire Press|location=Durham, NH|isbn=9781584654889|page=[https://archive.org/details/bostonmodernfigu0000book/page/193 193]|url=https://archive.org/details/bostonmodernfigu0000book/page/193}}
Aronson died at the age of 91 on July 2, 2015, from pneumonia and chronic heart failure.{{cite news|last1=Schwartz|first1=Penny|title=David Aronson, rabbi's rebel son, top expressionist, dies at 91|url=http://www.jta.org/2015/07/08/arts-entertainment/david-aronson-rabbis-rebel-son-top-expressionist-dies-at-91|accessdate=July 9, 2015|agency=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=July 8, 2015}}{{cite news|last1=McQuaid|first1=Cate|title=David Aronson, 91; leading Boston Expressionist artist|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/07/06/david-aronson-leading-boston-expressionist-artist-dies/bi1jJlbxs8tvCgNt3Gkj4I/story.html|accessdate=July 9, 2015|work=Boston Globe|date=July 7, 2015}}Roberts, Sam (July 15, 2015) [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/arts/david-aronson-expressionist-artist-dies-at-91.html?_r=0 Link Label]
Collections
- Art Institute of Chicago
- DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Mass.
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Keene State College, Keene, N.H.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
- National Academy Museum and School, New York
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
- University of New Hampshire Museum of Art, Durham
Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship - List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1960
- Election as Academician at the National Academy of Design, New York in 1967
- Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Hebrew College, Newton, Massachusetts.
Exhibitions
- [http://www.danforthmuseum.org/david_aronson.html David Aronson: The Paradox - Danforth Museum of Art] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100129072215/http://www.danforthmuseum.org/david_aronson.html |date=2010-01-29 }}
References
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Images
- [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A9&page_number=1&template_id=1&sort_order=1 Silkscreen in MoMA Collection]
- [http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=629 "Edmund Burke" bronze relief in the Smithsonian American Art Museum]
- [http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=627 "Blind Samson" in the Smithsonian American Art Museum]
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