Wilfrid Zogbaum
Wilfrid "Zog" Zogbaum (1915 – January 7, 1965) was an American painter, sculptor, and educator. He was also a commercial photographer in the late 1940s,[1] and started a sculpture studio in Montauk.[2]
Life
[edit]Wilfrid Zogbaum was born in 1915 in Newport, Rhode Island. Zogbaum's father was Admiral Rufus F. Zogbaum, Jr., and his grandfather was painter Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum.[1]
He studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design for two summers.[3] Followed by study at Yale School of Fine Arts (now Yale School of Art), under John Sloan, and Hans Hoffman.[1] Giorgio Cavallon and George McNeil were the class aids in Hoffman's class.[3] He was a founding member of American Abstract Artists in 1937.[4] In 1937, Zogbaum was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to studied in Europe.[1] While in Europe he met Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo and László Moholy-Nagy, Fernand Léger and Wassily Kandinsky.[1]
He served as a photographer in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II.[1] He was an associate professor at University of California, Berkeley (U.C. Berkeley) in 1957 and 1961–1962.[1]
Zogbaum's work has been exhibited in a number of galleries, including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York City, Manny Silverman Gallery in Los Angeles, and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York City.[5][6][7] His papers are held at the Archives of American Art.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g J. C. Haley; H. Cherry; Sidney Gordin; R. O'Hanlon (1966). "Wilfrid Zogbaum, Art: Berkeley". Online Archive of California, California Digital Library.
- ^ Artists website (subscription required)
- ^ a b "Wilfrid Zogbaum". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved July 7, 2022.
- ^ "Founding Members". American Abstract Artists. Archived from the original on May 19, 2020. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
- ^ "Wilfrid Zogbaum". Anita Shapolsky Gallery NYC.
- ^ Wilfrid Zogbaum, Artslant
- ^ "Wilfrid Zogbaum 1915–1965, US". ArtFacts.net.
- ^ Archives of American Art. "Summary of the Wilfrid Zogbaum papers, 1924–1966 – Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". si.edu.
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- St. George's School (Rhode Island) alumni
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- People from Montauk, New York
- 20th-century American sculptors
- American male sculptors
- United States Army personnel of World War II
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- Rhode Island School of Design alumni
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