Jerome Witkin | |
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Born | |
Education | The High School of Music & Art Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Cooper Union Berlin Academy University of Pennsylvania |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Social realism |
Children | Christian Witkin |
Family | (twin brother) Joel Peter Witkin |
Awards | Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowship |
Jerome Witkin (born September 13, 1939) is an American figurative artist whose paintings deal with political, social and cultural themes,[1] along with serious portraiture that melds the sitter's social position with a speaking likeness that reveals inner character. Witkin has been succinctly characterized as "a virtuoso figurative painter whose work mixes elements of the old masters, social realism and Abstract Expressionism ..."[2]