This book features American artists prominent in the 1940's and '50's. It is especially valuable, in my opinion, for its inclusion of the Russian born artist, Grigory Gluckman, who was an impressionist figure painter of the highest quality. He was well known in his time and collected by connoisseurs such as his friend, the famed violinist, Joshua Heifitz. Relatively unknown today, information on this artist and reproductions of his work are rare even on the net. Gluckman became a US citizen and lived in Los Angeles where he exhibited at the Dalzel Hatfield Gallery and died around 1970.

Although this book has chapters on other American artists of this period, it is Gluckman than makes it of exceptional interest to me as an artist. I was a student when this book was first published in the 1950.

I am a painter and sculptor currently living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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