Jerome Witkin (September 13, 1939) is an American figurative artist whose paintings often deal with political and cultural themes.[1] His portraits and ambitious narrative paintings are characterized by a virtuosic handling.[2]
Witkin was born in Brooklyn, New York, the twin brother of photographer Joel Peter Witkin.[3] At fourteen he entered the High School of Music and Art in New York, and subsequently studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Cooper Union, the Berlin Academy, and the University of Pennsylvania. A Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship enabled him to travel to Europe; after his return to the United States Witkin received a Guggenheim Fellowship, began exhibiting at galleries in New York, and joined the faculty of the Maryland Institute College of Art. He later taught at the Manchester College of Art in England, Moore College of Art, and in 1971 became a professor of art at Syracuse University.[4]
The death of his father induced Witkin to explore mortality in his work, and resulted in series of paintings on the themes of torture, assassination, AIDS, and the Holocaust, the last of which the artist worked on for twenty three years.[5] While his paintings reference the work of the old masters, social realism, and Abstract expressionism, Witkin refers to himself as a "cornball humanist".[6] In a fuller explanation of his motivation, Witkin has said "If this society continues to the next two thousand years, people will be looking at the twentieth century and saying, 'What did artists do about the strange goings-on?'"[7]
Witkin's work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Uffizi, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum.[8][9]
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- Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota
- Mario Cutajar, illustrated review, 2004
- Art Knowledge News, drawing exhibition
- Syracuse University Magazine, Nancy Keefe Rhodes interview, 2011
- Painting Perceptions interview and podcast, May 14, 2010
- WCNY-FM, Marie Lamb "Arts Talk" podcast interview, September 2011
- Syracuse University Art Galleries, "Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin"
- Jack Rutberg Fine Arts: Jerome Witkin artist page
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Jerome
Saint Jerome (/dʒəˈroʊm/; Latin: Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Greek: Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; c. 347 – 30 September 420) was a priest, confessor, theologian and historian, who also became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, born at Stridon, a village near Emona on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia, then part of northeastern Italy. He is best known for his translation of most of the Bible into Latin (the translation that became known as the Vulgate), and his commentaries on the Gospels. His list of writings is extensive. The protégé of Pope Damasus I, who died in December of 384, Jerome was known for his teachings on Christian moral life, especially to those living in cosmopolitan centers such as Rome. In many cases, he focused his attention to the lives of women and identified how a woman devoted to Jesus Christ should live her life. This focus stemmed from his close patron relationships with several prominent female ascetics who were members of affluent senatorial families.
Jerome (given name)
Jerome is a masculine name of Greek origin, derived from the Greek given name Ἱερώνυμος, Hierōnymos, "sacred name"; from ἱερός, hierós, "sacred", and ὂνυμα, ónyma, an alternative form of ὄνομα, ónoma, "name".
It is the name of a prominent Christian saint, Saint Jerome, the translator of the Vulgate.
Jerome ranked among the top 200 names given to boys born in the United States between 1903 and 1985. It has since declined in popularity and was ranked as the 616th most popular name for American boys born in 2008.
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