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Peter Krasnow

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Full Name
  
Feivish Reisberg

Born
  
August 20, 1886 (
1886-08-20
)
Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukraine

Died
  
30 October 1979, Los Angeles, California, United States

Peter Krasnow (20 August 1886 — 30 October 1979), born Feivish Reisberg, was a modernist and colorist artist known for his abstract wood sculptures and architectonic hard-edge paintings and drawings which were often based on Hebrew calligraphy and other subjects related to his Jewish heritage. Krasnow lived in Los Angeles for most of his life.

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Early life and education

Born in 1886 in Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukraine, he was an apprentice to his father, who was an interior decorator. Krasnow emigrated to the United States in 1907 and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1916.

Career

Krasnow first exhibited in the 1920s. He settled in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1922, purchasing the land where he built his home and studio from Edward Weston, who was his friend and a fellow member of the early Los Angeles avant-garde. Krasnow lived there for over 50 years. His work was included in the exhibit that launched MOCA. He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1977.

Exhibitions

  • 1922, Whitney Studio Club, New York (solo)
  • 1922, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
  • 1923, MacDowell Club, Los Angeles (solo)
  • 1926, The Print Rooms, Los Angeles
  • 1927, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
  • 1927, Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco
  • 1928, Oakland Municipal Art Gallery, Oakland (solo)
  • 1928, Seattle Society of Fine Arts, Seattle (solo)
  • 1928, Dalzell Hatfield Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
  • 1928, Zeitlin Bookstore, Los Angeles (solo)
  • 1929, Scripps College, Claremont (solo)
  • 1930, Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles (solo)
  • 1931, California Palace of Legion of Honor, San Francisco (solo)
  • 1934, Galerie Pierre, Paris (solo)
  • 1935, UCLA, Los Angeles
  • 1935, The Print Rooms, Los Angeles
  • 1935, California Pacific International Expo, San Diego
  • 1939, Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego
  • 1940, Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles (solo)
  • 1940, UCLA, Los Angeles
  • 1954, Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena
  • 1964, Scripps College, Claremont (solo)
  • 1975, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 1976, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
  • 1977, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley
  • 1978, Skirball Museum, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles
  • 1986, 1989, 1991, and 1993, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles

    • Artistic legacy

    In 2000, the Laguna Art Museum acquired over 500 pieces of his work.

    References

    Peter Krasnow Wikipedia
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