Philip Reisman Watercolor "Dog People" Signed Listed

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Philip Reisman
(1904 - 1992)

Original Watercolor

"Dog Lovers"

Framed under glass with double matting. 

Work measures 15 x 12-3/4".

Frame Measures 19-3/8 x22".

12.5 x 14-7/8" at mat board opening.

This enchanting watercolor features a man and a woman, seated and facing each other for conversation.  The man peers over his "lap dog", a standard poodle to engage the woman.

Philip Reisman is a very well listed American artist.  He was a WPA artist most closely associated with New York City.

He is referenced in a litany of books, including "Philip Reisman" by Lincoln Kirstein, published 1933.  Other book references include Davenport's, Who was Who in American Art, and Museum catalogs from the Smithsonian and Whitney.

Reisman has work in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the Smithsonian (Hirshorn Museum), the New York Public Library, the Mobile Museum of Art,  the National Academy of Design Museum, the Wichita Art Museum, and the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art.

The watercolor is in excellent condition.  It is probably due for a re-matting, as the frame it currently resides in is older and the mat board is probably not ph neutral.  There is a label on the reverse from Harbor Gallery of Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island.

The following biography is from Who was Who in American Art:

Birth place: Warsaw, Poland

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, illustrator, educator

Studied: ASL, illustration & composition with Wallace Morgan, life drawing with George Bridgeman; also etching & composition with Harry Wickey.

Exhibited: Roerich Mus. (solo); P&S (solo); Assoc. Am. Artists (solo); FAR Gal. (solo); Guild Gal., Warwick, OH (solo); The Hudson Guild (solo); Beaux Arts Gal., Denver (solo); Storm King AC, Mountainville, NY (solo); Harbor Gal., Cold Spring Harbor, NY (solo); AIC, 1932, 1944; PAFA Ann., 1933-34, 1946; MoMA, 1932; Nat. Print Exh.; Pepsi-Cola, 1944 (prize); WMAA; NAD, 1956 (Joseph Isidor Gold Medal); Art USA, 1959; Michiewitz Centennial Committee Prize, 1955; Childe Hassam Found. Purchase Prize, 1968; Yaddo Fellowship; NYC WPA Art" at Parsons Sch. Design, 1977; ACA Gal., NYC, 1970s."

Member: An Am. Group; Artists Lg. Am.; Am. Artists Congress; Artists Equity Assn. New York (vice pres.; pres.).

Work: MMA; NYPL (print coll.); MoMA; Bibliothèque Nat., Paris; Syracuse (NY)Univ. Coll.; Bates College, ME; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Norfolk (VA) Mus. Commissions: WPA mural, Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, New York, 1938.

Comments: Preferred media: oils, watercolors. Publications: illustr., Anna Karenina," Vols. I & II, 1940 & "Crime and Punishment," 44 Random. Teaching: Workshop Sch. Advertising Art, New York, 1954-56; Five Towns Arts Found., 1968-70; Educ. Alliance, New York, 1971-72.

Sources: WW73; Lincoln Kirstein, Philip Reisman (Hound & Horn, 1933); Henry Goodman, Philip Reisman (AD, 1941); illustrations reproduced by Life (1941); WW47; New York City WPA Art, 73 (w/repros.); Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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