Mitchell Siporin (American, 1910-1876) Painting. Title - Around the Fountain 1947. Casein painting on artist's board. Signed lower right Mitchell Siporin. Retains multiple museum loan labels on the back. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rose Art Museum Brandeis University, Downtown Gallery and Watter Collection. Painting measures 28 inches high, 21.2 inches wide. The original frame measures 34.7 inches high, 24.2 inches wide. One of the labels notes that it is gouache but inside the frame on the back of the painting it has the title and casein in the artist's hand. In good condition.

Biography from Butler Institute of American Art: Mitchell Siporin contributed illustration work to Esquire and The New Masses, the latter a socialist journal. During the 1930s Depression, he was one of the WPA (Works Progress Administration) artists and received a commission along with Edward Millman to do the largest mural commissioned under the Federal Arts Project. During World War II he had one-man shows at the Downtown Gallery in New York, and was part of the group show at the Metropolitan entitled Pintura Contemporanea Norteamericana which also toured Mexico and South America. He received the Florsheim prize from the Art Institute of Chicago and was collected by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan and the Museum of Modern Art. After the war he was awarded a Guggenheim and later the Prix de Rome from the American University. He settled in Massachusetts where he founded the Department of Fine Art at Brandeis University.

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