Isac Friedlander
American, born Latvia, 1890 - 19683 A.M., 1933
Not on view
Etching on paper
Dimensions15 1/4 × 22 1/4 in. (38.7 × 56.5 cm)
Image: 9 3/8 × 15 1/2 in. (23.8 × 39.4 cm)
Gift of Mr. Jack B. Pierson in memory of Mr. Robert Martin Purcell, 1982.428
Born in Latvia, Isac Friedlander had his first one-person exhibition in the U.S. at the Kleeman Galleries in 1931. Friedlander specialized in printmaking, considered the most democratic medium because prints can be sold inexpensively to a larger number of people. Friedlander was an active member of the American Society of Graphic Arts, Chicago Art Association, California Society of Etchers and Boston Printmakers. These affiliations resulted in Friedlander exhibiting extensively from New York to Los Angeles during the 1930s and 1940s. However, by the 1960s Friedlander had fallen into obscurity for his brand of Social Realism was replaced by the overwhelming momentum of the modernist movement in post-World War II America.
