Description: WILLIAM ROBERT SHULGOLD ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING ON BOARD SIGNED AND DATED 1958 BOARD: VIEWS WELL MINOR WEAR FRAME: NORMAL AGE RELATED WEAR STAINS CHIPS AND PAINT LOSS 16 BY 20 INCHES 25 1/4 BY 29 INCHES William Robert Shulgold (1897-1989)He was born in Russia in 1897. The family emigrated to Pittsburgh the following year. As a youth he worked for a watch maker and then in a bottling plant, but his first love was art. He matriculated to Carnegie technical Institute (predecessor to Carnegie Mellon) where he studied art under Professor Arthur Watson Sparks, head of Carnegie's art department and considered "probably Pittsburgh's leading impressionist artist", and under Assistant Professor George W. Sotter. Upon graduation he specialized in portraiture at the National Academy of Art under William Auerbach-Levy, and at the Art Students League. He then studied in Paris and Florence. Upon returning home he studied for some time under Charles Webster Hawthorne in Provincetown, Mass.He then became an art professor at Carnegie. He had become an etcher of landscapes and a portrait painter in oils. But after he retired about 1962, he became well known as a portrait painter of Hollywood celebrities.His long history of exhibitions includes Pennsylvania Academy 1929-1941, Art Institute of Chicago 1931, Los Angeles County Museum of 1951,Corcoran Gallery 1926-1957, New York 1957, Carnegie International 1931-1960, and the National Gallery, Toronto.Shulgold died at the age of 92 in 1989 in Los Angeles.Written and submitted by Samuel M. Robbins whose information comes from numerous sources, but especially the Kevin Daniels collection. William Robert Shulgold1897 - 1989William Robert Shulgold was born in Kamenietz, Russia on July 10, 1897, a son of Bernard and Ada Reisberg Shulgold. The Shulgolds were Jewish and lived in what was called the Russian Partition or Russian Poland, emigrating to America in 1898 where they settled in Pittsburgh, Pa. He studied art at Carnegie Tech and the Pennsylvania Academy of Design. Shulgold lived in Pittsburgh until 1936 when he moved to New York City. He was a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, and the Art Guild of the L.C. Tiffany Foundation. Schulgold is best known for his portraits and etchings.
Price: 1500 USD
Location: Northridge, California
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Type: Painting
Artist: WILLAM SHULGOLD
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Signed By: WILLIAM SHULGOLD
Size: Medium
Signed: Yes
Period: Post-War (1940-1970)
Material: BOARD
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Region of Origin: California, USA
Framing: Framed
Subject: Costumes, Figures, Paris
Personalize: No
Year of Production: 1958
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 29 in
Theme: Art, Fashion, People, Portrait
Style: Figurative Art, Illustration Art, Impressionism, Indian, Islamic, Modernism, Still Life
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 24 in
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1950-1959
