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Raphael Soyer: A Portrait of Urban Humanity Raphael Soyer (1899-1987) was a Russian-born American Scene painter known for his Social Realist depictions of New York City life, portraits & urban scenes. Explore his work and legacy! Born in Borisoglebsk, Russia, Raphael Zalman Soyer—along with his identical twin brother, Moses—were born in borisoglebsk, tambov, a southern province of russia in 1899. Their father, abraham soyer, a hebrew scholar, writer and teacher, raised his six children in an intellectual environment in which much emphasis was placed on academic and artistic pursuits. Their…
A chart of Raphael Soyer's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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