Biography
From 1906-1909 Elias Goldberg studied with George Bridgman at the Art Students League of New York. In 1915 his illustration work published in The Masses and in 1917 Elias Goldberg illustrated an English language version of "Souvenirs Entomologiques" by the French entomologist Jean Henri Fabre.
In 1918 he was in the second annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists. During the 1920s he was an illustrator for the Japan Paper Company and for Hal Marchbanks Press. It was during this period that he studied and painted in Europe and developed friendships with Jules Pascin, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. In 1935 he had his first one-man show at Another Place Gallery.
In 1948 he had his first show at the Charles Egan Gallery and enjoyed friendships with Willem de Kooning and Elaine de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. In the 1950s, he befriended a younger generation of artists such as Knox Martin (a fellow artist in the Charles Egan Gallery), Reuben Nakian, Herman Rose, Peter Golfinopoulos and Joseph Stapleton. In the 1960s he had a series of critically acclaimed one-man shows at the Charles Egan Gallery. In 1973 he received a grant from the Mark Rothko Foundation.
Elias Goldberg died on February 22, 1978 in New York City.
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