| Alexander Dobkin, Italian (1908 - 1975)
Born in Italy, Alexander Dobkin
moved to New York at an early age and studied at the City College
of New York and at the Art Students League, under George Bridgeman
and Jose Clemente Orozco. His first one man exhibition was held
at New York's A.C.A. Gallery in 1935. He later exhibited at such
major institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the
Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery and the Carnegie
Institute. Dobkin also illustrated a number of fine books and
taught for many years in New York at both the Educational Alliance
and at the Art Students League. Today his original paintings
and lithographs are included in the following collections; the
Butler Art Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the
Tel Aviv Museum, Israel, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the
Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institute.
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