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Chronology 

1903 Born March 14, New York City. 
1920 Left high school and enrolled at the Art Students League. Studied under John Sloan and Robert Henri. 
1921 Worked his passage to Europe. Attended sketch classes at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, and other studio schools, visited the museums extensively and travelled to Berlin and Munich.  
1923 Returned to New York City. Finished high school and studied at Parsons School of Design. The Art Students League, Cooper Union and the Educational Alliance Art School. His efforts devote only to painting, he supported himself by part-time jobs. 
1929 Awarded a joint-price in the Dudensing National Competition.  
1930 Shared an exhibition at the Dudensing Galleries, New York with Konrad Cramer. 
1932 Married Esther Dick.  
1935 Spent two months in Europe Became a founding member of "The Ten," a group united by their devotion to expressionist and abstract painting. It included Ilya Bolotowsky Lee Gatch and Mark Rothko. They exhibited annually until 1940. Began to collect primitive sculpture.  
1936 Employed as an easel painter on WPA Federal Art Project. 
1937 Moved to the desert near Tucson, Arizona 
1939 Returned to New York. Began to spend summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with Milton Avery. Became an avid sailor. Won U.S. Treasure sponsored nationwide mural competition. Commissioned to paint a mural in the Yerrington, Nevada Post Office. 
1941 Began to develop the Pictographs. 
1944 Awarded First Prize. Brooklyn Society of Artists, Annual Exhibition. 
1944-45 President of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors 
1946 Participated in a forum. "Problems of Art and Artists Today and Tomorrow" sponsored by The Art Students League and The Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Inc. Began to spend summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts.  
1948 Participated in a forum, "The Modern Artists Speaks," at The Museum of Modern Art.  
1949 Participated in a forum. "The Schism Between Artist and Public," sponsored by The Art Students League and The Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, Inc. |
1951 Designed the ark curtain for Congregation B'nai Israel, Millburn, New Jersey. Received a purchase prize. University of Illinois, Contemporary American Painting. 
1952 Designed and supervised fabrication of a 1,300 square-foot stained glass facade for The Milton Steinberg Memorial Center, New York City. The Frozen Sounds, Number I shown at Kootz Gallery, New York. First of the Imaginary Landscapes. 
1953 Designed the ark curtain for Congregation Beth El, Springfield, Massachusetts. 
1954 Participated in a conference, "Art Education and the Creative Process," sponsored by The Museum of Modern Art. 
1957 Burst shown at The Jewish Museum, New York. First in a series of the same title. 
1958 Taught at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, and at the University of California at Los Angeles, California. 
1960 Moved to East Hampton, Long Island, New York.  
1961 Awarded Third Prize, Pittsburgh International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute. 
1963 Awarded Grand Premio, VII Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil. 
1965 Received award, American Academy of Achievement, Dallas, Texas. 
1966 Studio and contents destroyed by fire. 
1967 Appointed to The Art Commission. City of New York. Lives in New York City and East Hampton, Long Island, New York.

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