ARTIST: Anton L Refregier (Russian, California, 1905 - 1979)
NAME: Mother and Child
MEDIUM: pastel on paper
CONDITION: Very good. Framed under glass.
SIGHT SIZE: 13 x 10 inches / 33 x 25 cm
FRAME SIZE: 19 x 16 inches / 48 x 40 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
Marsh, John French Sloan, Everett Shinn
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
SKU#: 116622
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BIOGRAPHY:
Anton Refregier was born March 20, 1905 in Moscow, Russia. He immigrated to the United States in 1920. He received his artistic training from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1921-1925; studied abroad with the sculptor Nicolai Vassilief in Paris in 1920; and with Hans Hofmann
in Munich, 1927.
From 1934 to 1940, Refregier, living in New York City, worked on various WPA Federal Art Projects as a teacher, supervising artist, and mural supervisor. His most famous work is arguably the mural project at San Francisco's Rincon Center, the costliest and one of the most controversial of all the WPA
commissions. It is a multi-scene panorama that sparked national debate because of its inclusion of controversial events in California history.
Refregier found inspiration in tragic events, which is reflected in his Depression Era-WPA work.
Aside from his mural work, Anton Refregier was an easel painter, decorator, set designer, author, and teacher (professor of painting, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY, 1962-64). He also was a faculty member of the American Artists School, a progressive and socialist oriented school in New York
City.
Refregier died in Moscow in October 1979.