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Birth
1922 (Chicago, Illinois)
Death
2004 (New York, New York)
Lived/Active
New York
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mod morose figure-genre, portrait
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Born in Chicago, Leon Golub became a modernist painter, whose monumental canvases combined a sense of humanism and history. He earned a graduate degree from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1950, and a year later, married artist Nancy Spero.
Golub expressed a wide range of interests from African and pre-Columbian to Greek and Roman Sculpture and the sculpture of Jacques-Louis David. His Abstract Expressionism in the 1960s introduced recognizable figurative subjects, which stirred much crit (showing 500 of 8753 characters). |
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