1. Ralph Rosenborg was an American artist whose paintings were described as both expressionist and abstract and who was a colleague of the New York Abstract Expressionists in the 1940s and 1950s.
17 Facts About Ralph Rosenborg
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Ralph Rosenborg's career was exceptionally long, covering more than 50 years and his output was correspondingly large.
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When Ralph Rosenborg encountered her, Reiss was serving as an instructor for the School Art League in the American Museum of Natural History.
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Ralph Rosenborg was then engaged in instructing both students and their teachers in the city school system by a method she called Rhythmic Design.
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Ralph Rosenborg said the rhythms of a musical composition might inspire a graphic pattern of forms and colors and in the same way rhythms perceived in a sunset or the ripples of a stream might be translated into a graphic design: anything seen, heard, or read might furnish an idea for a symbolic interpretation.
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Ralph Rosenborg believed that rhythm is present everywhere and that students could be trained to sense its various manifestations.
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In May 1930 Reiss selected a drawing by Ralph Rosenborg to be shown in an exhibition of creative design by City high school students.
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From 1930 to 1933, aged 17 to 20, Ralph Rosenborg studied with Reiss in what Vivian Raynor of the New York Times called a "pupil-apprentice" relationship.
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At roughly the same time Ralph Rosenborg associated himself with a group of abstractionists that called itself "The Ten" and in May 1938 joined with its other members in what would be his first appearance in a commercial gallery: the Gallery Georgette Passedoit.
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Ralph Rosenborg never had an exclusive long-term relationship with a commercial gallery.
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Ralph Rosenborg contributed paintings to exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1946,1953,1956,1957,1976, and 1990.
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Ralph Rosenborg was given retrospective exhibitions in 1982 at the Schlesinger-Boisante Gallery and in 1983 at the Princeton Gallery of Fine Art.
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Ralph Rosenborg paid little heed to modernist theories of surface and structure that fascinated many of his contemporaries.
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Unlike better-known abstract expressionists, Ralph Rosenborg made small paintings and gave preference to gouaches and watercolors over oils.
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Ralph Rosenborg was born on June 9,1913, to Mozart Wolfgang Rosenborg and his wife Helen Rosenborg.
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Ralph Rosenborg's father emigrated to New York in 1903 and lived in New York City.
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Ralph Rosenborg's mother was sometimes a homemaker and sometimes earned a living as a cook.