Samuel Halpert
Samuel Halpert (1884 in
Detroit, Michigan
) was an American painter.
Early days
Halpert's family migrated to New York City in 1890. His father's preoccupation with religious devotion necessitated that Halpert sell Jewish newspapers, books and candy after school to help support the family. At the Neighborhood Guild, later called
The Educational Alliance from around 1898 to 1902. Beginning in 1899, the young artist also attended the National Academy of Design
for three years, and left for France in 1902.
Travel in Europe
Halpert spent his first year in Paris studying under
Cézanne, and the Fauves. Halpert exhibited from 1905 to 1911 at the Salon d'Automne and established strong friendships with the artists Patrick Henry Bruce, Sonia Delaunay and Robert Delaunay, Abel Warshawsky, Thomas Hart Benton, Fernand Léger and Jean Metzinger
.
New York City and his first show
In 1912, Halpert returned to New York. He and
Ferrer Center and, in 1913, Halpert left to set up an artists' community in Ridgefield, New Jersey. Other frequenters of the colony were the writer Alfred Kreymborg and the sculptor Adolf Wolff. The next year, his first one-man show was held at the Daniel Gallery. In 1915, Halpert returned to Europe and traveled to France, Spain, London and Portugal (Vila do Conde) with the Delaunays, whose abstract work
had little influence on him.
Career
Halpert returned to New York in 1916, and during the next two years exhibited in several People's Art Guild shows. Through the Guild, he met
artist colony established by the critic and patron Hamilton Easter Field and frequented by Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Bernard Karfiol and Marguerite and William Zorach
, among others.
In fall 1927, Halpert separated from his wife and moved to Detroit to head the painting department at the School of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts. He died there three years later.[1]
References
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- ^ Norman L Kleeblatt and Susan Chevlowe (eds), Painting a place in America. Jewish Artists: NY 1900-1945, Jewish Museum NY Publishing Company with Indy Press 1991.
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