Irving Rosenzweig [1915-ca.1983]
American
Beaded fruit, 1959
Oil on canvas board
20 x 24 inches
Signed and dated at lower left : ‘ROSENZWEIG / 59′.

Marking type: Printed with maker of panel logo and information.
Location: Verso center.
Text: ’20 x 24 / [4 leaf clover silhouette] CLODERLEAF / CANVAS PANEL [contained within a border with a drop shadow] [4 leaf clover silhouette] / CLODER CORPORATION / 177 BROADWAY • NY 7 NY • Worth 2 • 0453’.

Marking type: Pencil hand writting vertically.
Location: Verso middle right.
Text: ‘Evelyn / 20 [crossed out] 15835’.

Marking type: Water, tape or former label stain.
Location: Verso upper middle and verso upper center.
Text: ‘[approximately 2 – 1 inch stains’.

Irving Rosenzweig (1915-ca.1983)

BIOGRAPHY
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Irving Rosenzweig (1915-ca.1983) was an American figurative abstract painter known for his New York City themed paintings overlaid with strong color and pattern. Rosenweig was born in Brooklyn, NY, lived at 30 Oakfield Avenue, Freeport, NY (Long Island), and then moved to Fort Lauderdale, FL from around 1980 until his death in about 1983. He served in the United States army in 1942 as a warrant officer. The soft-spoken painter studied at the Pratt Institute, the Art Student’s League and in Florence, Paris and Barcelona. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum in 1967, the National Academy of Design, the Jersey City Museum, Hofstra University, Brooklyn College and Oklahoma State University.

Rosenzweig’s cityscape / city life genre work used color and pattern to convey the feelings, mood and the tone of the people who he captured and his own feelings toward his subjects.

Rosenzweig is listed in Who Was Who in American Art, Falks, and in several annual Art in America guides.

GALLERIES
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– Deligny Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL
– Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
– Joan Avnet Gallery
– [A Manhasset gallery]

EXHIBITIONS
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– National Academy of Design
– Jersey City Museum
– Hofstra University
– Brooklyn College
– Oklahoma State University
1974 : Newman Galliers, Philadelphia, PA, “Recent paintings”, March 2.
1967-1968 : Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, “Annual exhibition of contemporary American painting”, December 13, 1967 – February 4, 1968, shown Honky Tonk.

SOURCES
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– “LSD Art > Combo Jazz > Irving Rosenzweig.” LSD Art website. Updated unknown. Accessed August 10, 2017. http://www.lsdart.com/detail.cfm?id=16
– Fort Lauderdale News, Fort Lauderdale, FL, “Brooklyn’s busy streets inspired Rosenzweig’s art”, Sunday, February 10, 1980, page 184, illustrated.
– The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, Sunday, “Art events in the Philadelphia Area”, February 3, 1974, page 129, not illustrated.
– 1967 Annual exhibition of contemporary American painting.
– Who was who in American art 1564-1975: 400 years of artists in America, volume 3, page 2831.