Wilfrid "Zog" Zogbaum (1915 – January 7, 1965) was an American painter, sculptor, and educator. He was also a commercial photographer in the late 1940s, and started a sculpture studio in Montauk.

Life

Wilfrid Zogbaum was born in 1915 in

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. Zogbaum's father was Admiral Rufus F. Zogbaum, Jr., and his grandfather was painter

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. He studied art at the

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for two summers. Followed by study at Yale School of Fine Arts (now

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), under

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, and Hans Hoffman. Giorgio Cavallon and George McNeil were the class aids in Hoffman's class. He was a founding member of

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in 1937. In 1937, Zogbaum was awarded a

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to studied in Europe. While in Europe he met

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Naum Gabo Naum Gabo (born Naum Neemia Pevsner; Russian language, Russian: Наум Борисович Певзнер; Hebrew language, Hebrew: נחום נחמיה פבזנר) (23 August 1977) was an influential sculptor, theorist, and key figure in Russia's ...

and

László Moholy-Nagy László Moholy-Nagy (; ; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by Constructivism (art), con ...

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and

Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstract art, abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in ...

. He served as a photographer in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during

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. He was an associate professor at

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(U.C. Berkeley) in 1957 and 1961–1962. Zogbaum's work has been exhibited in a number of galleries, including the

Anita Shapolsky Gallery The Anita Shapolsky Gallery is an art gallery that was founded in 1982 by Anita Shapolsky. It is currently located at 152 East 65th Street, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, in New York City. The gallery specializes in 1950s and 1960s abstract ...

in New York City, Manny Silverman Gallery in Los Angeles, and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York City. His papers are held at the

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References

External links

*http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-wilfrid-zogbaum-11800 {{DEFAULTSORT:Zogbaum, Wilfrid 1915 births 1965 deaths St. George's School (Rhode Island) alumni Artists from Newport, Rhode Island People from Montauk, New York 20th-century American sculptors American male sculptors United States Army personnel of World War II 20th-century American male artists Rhode Island School of Design alumni Yale School of Art alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty