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Raphael Soyer.

Raphael Soyer was born in 1899, in Tambov, Russia. His childhood years were passed in a cultured atmosphere, where he obtained a good grounding in a Jewish and Russian education. In 1912 he arrived in America where, like many another ambitious immigrant, he alternately worked and studied. He attended art classes at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, the Beaux Arts Institute and the Art Students League. His very first show, at the Daniel Gallery, in 1929 (he had started exhibiting a few years earlier) attracted favorable comment which grew in volume with each subsequent exhibition. Awards followed: the Kohnstamm Prize (Chi. Art Institute, 1932), the Beck Gold Medal (Penn.Academy, 1934)
and his works were acquired by the Metropolitan Museum [[strikethrough]] , the [[/strikethrough]] (N.Y.), the Whitney Museum (N.Y.), the Baltimore Museum (Md.), the Duncan Phillips Collection and many others here and abroad. He travelled through several countries of Europe, studying art, old and new. His itinerary included a visit to the U.S.S.R. where he exchanged views with Soviet artists.

An examination of Sover's collective work shows that while his style has been evolving through a number of phases and his themes hav have been widening in scope, a certain close-knit unity of concept ion, orientation and method emerges throughout to give a special

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