Lewis Rubenstein (1908-2003)
Fall
oil on watercolor paper
15"x22" (image size)
Value: $1,200
Lewis Rubenstein's career spanned eight decades, starting in the 1930's as a young fresco painter, and documenting through sketches and watercolors the lives and struggles of the ordinary working class during the Depression and throughout WWII. His later Creation series made innovative use of the Japanese sumi-e style of ink drawing and he originated his own unique artistic form, which he called "Time Painting", a type of framed continuous scroll painting.
During his career, Rubenstein's drawings, paintings and lithographs were exhibited in such institutions as the Fogg Art Museum, Boston, the Whitney Museum, New York, the Corcoran Museum, Philadelphia, the National Academy of Design, and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, as well as with the Society of American Graphic Artists and the American Watercolor Society. Rubenstein also held the post of professor of painting at Vassar College from 1939 to 1974.
A current retrospective of his work is being held at the BCA Center (2nd floor Gallery) through August 13th.
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