biographie de David ARONSON (1923-2015)

Birth place: Shilova, Lithuania

Addresses: Sudbury, MA

Profession: Painter, sculptor

Studied: BMFA Sch. with Karl Zerbe, cert., 1945; grant, Nat. Soc. Arts & Lett., 1958; Guggenheim fel., 1960.

Exhibited: Inst. Mod. A., 1944 (prize); Fourteen Americans, MoMA, 1945; VMFA Biennial, 1945, 1946 (prize); WMAA, 1946-1964; Johnson Collection of American Art (traveled internationally), 1962 & 1963; NYWF, 1964-1965; Nat. Collection Fine Arts (now NMAA) Opening Exhib., Smithsonian Inst, 1965; Bernard Danenberg Galleries, NYC, 1970s. Awards: Grand prize, Boston Arts Festival, 1952-1954.

Member: NA,1972

Work: NMAA; AIC; VMFA; BMFA; WMAA. Commissions: Great Ideas of Western Man, Container Corp. Am., 1963.

Comments: Preferred media: encaustic, bronze. Teaching: Instr. painting, BMFASch, 1943-1954; chmn. div. art, Boston Univ., 1954-1963, prof. art, 1962-. Publications: auth, Encaustic," Artist Magazine, (1962); Real and Unreal: the Double Nature of Art (Boston Univ. Press,1967).

Sources: WW73; WW47; Time Mag (Nov 1963); Newman, Wax as art form, (Yosellof, 1966); Grossman, Art & tradition, (Yosellof, 1967)."