painting on board mounted and framed signed lower right. 37.5" x 19" - Ukrainian American, 20th century.Born 1895, Skole, Ukraine; died 1998, Brooklyn, New York.Aaron Birnbaum was born in 1895 in the small town of Skola, in that part of eastern Europe that has changed hands repeatedly in the twentieth century - initially part of Austria-Hungary, then in quick succession part of Poland and the Soviet Union, recently becoming part of the newly independent Ukraine. The geographic chaos of his birthplace was reflected in the early years of his life: fear and unease due to the marginalization of the Jewish community in Skola, his father Josef's immigration to the United States, apprenticeship to a tailor at the age of thirteen, working 17-hour days, six days a week. With war on the horizon, the Birnbaum family left Europe in 1913 for the United States, rejoining Josef who had settled on the lower east side of Manhattan. (credit bio to outsiderartfair.com)

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