Modernist
painter Arnold Friedman was born in New York City. He did not
study art until 1905, with Robert Henri at the Art Students League
in New York City. He supported himself by working in the post-office.
Friedman's paintings
appeared in two exhibitions in New York City in 2003, a one-man
show at the Barbara Mathes Gallery, and a survey, American Art:
1750 to the Present, at the Richard York Gallery.
A comprehensive 1986
exhibition of approximately one hundred eleven paintings and some
watercolors and drawings was held at the Salander-O-Reilly Galleries
in New York City. The show, Arnold Friedman (1874-1946): An Exhibition:
Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors, gave rise to an extensive
catalogue with an essay by critic Hilton Kramer.
Arnold Friedman participated,
from February 14-16, 1936, in the First Congress of American Artists
against War and Fascism, in New York City. An extant publication
records the essays of painters Stuart Davis and Peter Blume, photographer
Margaret Bourke-White, sculptor Paul Manship and critic Lewis
Mumford, among others, as well as the artists who attended, including
painters Max Weber, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco,
Harry Sternberg, Arnold Blanch and John Groth.
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