Philip Reisman (Polish - American, 1904-1992) Pen and Ink Drawing. Title - Les Girls. Original charcoal and pen and ink Social Realist drawing of New York City street life. Signed lower right Phillip Reisman. Ink painting measures 15.7 inches high, 19.7 inches wide. Margin measures .5 to 1 inch. Frame measures 23 inches high, 27 inches wide.In good condition with light mat burn. Tape hinged, not glued down. Etching and lithograph edition prints that vary slightly from this original Les Girls ink drawing were printed later by the artist.

From Askart.com: Philip Reisman (1904-1992) was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1908 his family moved to New York, where he would come to expressively interpret scenes of various daily labor, seedy nightclubs and reflective moments within the city. Reisman studied at the Art Students League of New York under Wallace Morgan, George Bridgeman, George Luks and Frank Du Mond. He studied privately as well with Harry Wickes from 1927-1928. The Works Project Administration (WPA) and the Public Works Art Project (PWAP) provided Resiman with opportunities for commission and travel during the 1930's. Exhibitions include several one-person shows at the ACA Gallery in New York between 1943 and 1963, and numerous group exhibitions with the National Academy of Design, Hudson Guild and Whitney Annual in New York. Reisman also illustrated short stories for Collier's magazine and an edition of Anna Karenina for Random House and created a mural for the Bellevue Hospital, New York in 1937. Reisman received awards from the Carnegie Institute, Nicholas Roerich Museum, National Academy of Design, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the American Society of Contemporary Artists. He taught at the American Artists' School, Educational Alliance, South Shore Arts Workshop, Workshop School of Advertising Art and the Young Men's Hebrew Association. His works have been included in the public collections of the New York Public Library; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Academy of Design, New York and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. In 1986, Martin H. Bush published a book of Philip Reisman's life and work for the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kansas. From NewYorkTimes.com: Philip Reisman, a Social Realist painter and printmaker known for his views of New York City street life, died on Wednesday at Beth Israel Hospital. He was 87 years old, and lived in Manhattan. Fourteen of Mr. Reisman's etchings of New York life are to be in the show Recent Gifts: Works on Paper, opening at the Museum of the City of New York on June 24. His work is also represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan; the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington; and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, among others. A Day of One's Own In 1979 and 1980, a three-month exhibition of Mr. Reisman's work from the 1960's and 1970's appeared at the Museum of the City of New York. In honor of the show, Manhattan Borough President Andrew J. Stein proclaimed Nov. 13, 1979, to be Philip Reisman Day. In 1982, the artist was elected an Academician at the National Academy of Design. A book about him, Philip Reisman: People Are His Passion, by Dr. Martin H. Bush, was published in 1987 by Wichita State University. Mr. Reisman was born in Warsaw in 1904, and came to New York with his family at the age of 4. He studied at the Art Students League in the 1920's, and had his first solo show at the Painters and Sculptors Gallery in New York City in 1931. Later in the 1930's, he worked as a painter and muralist on the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, the Government-sponsored effort to create work for artists during the Depression. For many years, Mr. Reisman exhibited at the ACA Gallery in Manhattan, along with other social commentators, including Jack Levine, Robert Gwathmey, Philip Evergood and William Gropper. He also taught art classes at his studio, at the Educational Alliance and at other workshops around New York. Besides his wife, Mr. Reisman is survived by a brother, Edward, also of Manhattan.

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