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Birth
1910 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Death
2009
Lived/Active
District Of Columbia/Ohio
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abstract expressionist, figurative and realist painting-portraits, mural
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| Samuel Bookatz (October 3, 1910 – November 16, 2009) was a prolific painter who defied the demands of his blue collar, Orthodox Jewish upbringing to study art in the United States and Europe. Bookatz painted in a variety of styles: for commissions with presidential, military, political, and civic portraits; for murals during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Federal Art Project; for religious and secular frescoes; and mostly for his own vision. In his private art, he developed from a realistic style t (showing 500 of 10959 characters). |
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