Leon Bibel
Leon Bibel | |
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Born | 1913 |
Died | 1995 (aged 81–82) |
Leon Bibel (1913–1995) was a Polish-born American painter and printmaker during the
ark
, which still stands at Congregation B'nai Tikvah in North Brunswick, NJ, along with a Tallit holder he created and several other items.
Leon Bibel was born in
University of California at San Francisco's Toland Hall. He resided in New York beginning in 1936 as a WPA artist of the Federal Art Project at the Harlem Community Art Center in New York City. He also taught art at both P.S. 94 and Bronx House. At the start of the Second World War, he and a number of other New York artists moved to South Brunswick, New Jersey, to make a living as chicken farmers.[1]
By the 1960s, Bibel returned to art, focusing on wood-based sculptures. He died in 1995.
He was a friend and neighbor of the American sculptor
).Holdings and exhibitions
Bibel's work may be found at
Rutgers University and Princeton Universities.[citation needed
]
Bibel's work has been featured in posthumous exhibitions in Philadelphia in 2011[2] and in Virginia in 2013.[3]
References
- ^ Glinter, Ezra. "Slideshow: Leon Bibel's Artworks for Social Justice", The Forward, September 20, 2011. Accessed October 7, 2015. "In 1936 he moved to New York where he worked as an art teacher before moving to South Brunswick, New Jersey, where he took up chicken farming and became a friend of sculptor George Segal."
- ^ Wrynn, Phyllis. "Leon Bibel: Art & Activism in the WPA". parkslopegallery.com. Retrieved 2015-04-02.
- ^ Bernstein, Barbara (2013-10-24). "Exhibition Celebrates WPA Artist Leon Bibel". Living New Deal. Retrieved 2015-04-02.