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Martin Friedman signed ink drawing Jewish wpa

Martin Friedman (1896 - 1981)
Early Provincetown abstract artist who painted in town during the 1955`s to 70`s. Also listed in Provincetown Painters. Extremely well listed with many organizations, museums, collections and exhibitions.

(from a biography of Maurice Sievan) Sievan joined the WPA Federal Art Project as an Art Teacher and as a "self-supervised" artist in the Easel Division in 1936 earning $24 per week, exhibiting his work at the Federal Art Gallery and the Temporary Gallery of the Municipal Art Committee alongside his friends Saul Berman, Martin Friedman, William Gropper and Louis Lozowick. From 1934 to 1939 he produced a body of brilliantly painted cityscapes (Spring in Tompkins Square Park, Along the Harlem River, East 14th Street), and strong figurative works (Saul Berman at Work, Figure – 1937). In 1938, he joined Emily Francis' Contemporary Art Gallery with Milton Avery and Mark Rothko, with whom he became lifelong friends, as well as Burgoyne Diller, Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Tobey.

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