ARTIST: Walter Sidney Feldman (Massachusetts, 1925 - 2017)
TITLE: Portrait of Military Man
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Few minor paint losses mostly along edges. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 30 x 26 inches / 76 x 66 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: on verso
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CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Walter S. Feldman (1925 - 2017) was a modernist American painter, printmaker and mosaicist who spent most of his life and career in Providence, Rhode Island. He is best known for his expressionist paintings, woodcuts, and public commission mosaics and stained glass windows. He became a student at the Yale School of Art in 1942. After graduating from the Yale University of Fine Arts (BFA 1950) and Yale University School of Design (MFA 1951), he became an art educator at Brown University for over 5 decades. In 1990, Feldman founded and was the principal designer of art books of Ziggurat Press in Providence.Feldman re-enrolled at Yale in the Fall of 1946, he completed his BFA in 1950. he was awarded the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship and spent a few months after graduation traveling in France and Italy and furthering his exposure to past masters and modern European artists. He returned to Yale as a graduate student, where his teachers included Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers, and received an MFA in 1951. As an undergraduate art student (1946-1950), Feldman worked on mastering technical painting skills in a realism style. The work, The Mother, is a "memory portrait" from this period.Feldman joined the Yale faculty as an Instructor of Painting for the next two years. In 1953 he was appointed to the Brown University art department where he stayed until his retirement in 2007.Feldman was promoted to Professor of Art at Brown University in 1961 while continuing to create and exhibit his art in multiple media'painting, printmaking, sculpture and mosaics. From 1985 on, he divided his time between painting and as a designer and publisher of artists' books under the Ziggurat press imprint. Feldman was the founder of the Ziggurat Press in Providence. His works are in over 100 public collections including the Holocaust Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art in Washington, DC, Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.Feldman retired from teaching at Brown University in 2007, but he kept creating art and publishing prints and books up until his death in Providence on May 20, 2017. In 2013, he endowed the Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists at the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston. The Fellowship supports the professional career of a visual artist through providing a solo exhibition with curatorial and professional development guidance for their career. Upon his death he also created the Walter S. Feldman Trust for Artwork at Brown University to maintain his works and provide funds for the institution.