"If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times."
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As quoted in Barry N. Schwartz, The new humanism: art in a time of change, Praeger 1974, p. 179.
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Raphael Soyer
Raphael Zalman Soyer (December 25, 1899 – November 4, 1987) was a Russian-born American painter. Soyer, referred to as an "American Scene" painter, was also an author who wrote his autobiography and a book on Thomas Eakins.
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