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Birth
1890 (Bronx, New York)
Death
1974 (Santa Barbara, California)
Lived/Active
Illinois/California
Self portrait - Claude Buck - Self Portrait
Often Known For
allegorical figure and hyper-real portrait painting
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| A leading member of the avant-garde Symbolism* artists movement in Chicago, Claude Buck moved there from his birth place of New York City in 1919. He was known for his "fantastic, sometimes disturbing images with allegorical and literary themes" (Kennedy 97) drawn from writings of Edgar Allen Poe, operas by Richard Wagner, classical mythology and "New Testament" writings from the Bible. Some of these early paintings had nude figures rendered in Classical* style to express abst (showing 500 of 8188 characters). |
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