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Robert Lavin

Robert Lavin (1919 - 1997) was active/lived in New York.  Robert Lavin is known for Magazine illustration, social realist images and portrait painting.

ROBERT LAVIN (born 1919-1997)

Robert Lavin was born in New York City. His education included Townsend Harris, a prep school in New York followed by college at City College of New York. He also attended the National Academy of Art, where he studied as a painter. 

Studying the social realists of the 1930’s, Lavin, a former Marine pilot, portrayed steelworkers, roughnecks and trainmen. Lavin often painted his “proletarian ballets”- as one critic called them – to illustrate magazine advertisements.   
The Smithsonian Institution and other museums collected Lavin’s original paintings, which portrayed the laboring subjects with dignity and integrity.  Lavin also illustrated stock certificates and books.  Paper Money magazine praised him as “one of the greatest vignette artists of the 20th century.” 

In addition to this, Lavin was for a number of years an Associate Profes   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2188 characters.]  Artist bio

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