Louis Leon Ribak

Louis Leon Ribak
Born (1902-12-03)December 3, 1902
Grodno
Died 1979
Taos, New Mexico
Nationality American
Known for Painting, drawing
Movement Social realism

Louis Leon Ribak (3 December 1902 – 1979) was an American social realist and abstractionist painter. Born in Ruzhany, Ribak emigrated to New York at the age of ten with his family. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for a year in 1920, and the Art Students League of New York in 1922 under John Sloan.

In 1939 Ribak painted a U.S. post office mural, View Near Albemarle in the US Post Office in Albemarle, North Carolina.

He served in the military for two years during the Second World War and was discharged because of asthma. Seeking a healthier climate, Ribak and his wife Beatrice Mandelman, also an artist, moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1944. At this point, Ribak changed to a more non-objective style and brighter color palette. He returned to New York for several years, but moved back to Taos permanently in 1953. Ribak died in Taos in 1979. His work is in the permanent collections of Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum and the Newark Museum.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Fisher, Reginald (1947). An Art Directory of New Mexico. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico. p. 45-46.

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