Joseph Newman  (1890   -   1979)  Works

Joseph Newman (1890 - 1979)

Painter Joseph Newman was born in New York City in 1890. He attended both Pratt Institute and Adelphi College Art School before serving in World War I for the U.S. Army. At the war’s conclusion, Newman remained in Europe to travel with his new wife. Upon his return to New York in the mid-1920s, Newman established the Fifteen Gallery with several other artists. He was a member of such famed artist organizations as the L.C. Tiffany Foundation, the Salmagundi Club, Rockport Art Association, and the American Watercolor Society. Throughout his career his paintings could often be seen at institutions like the Brooklyn Museum, the National Academy, the Carnegie Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Society of Independent Artists.

Newman’s paintings often varied in subject and style. Throughout his career he moved from genre scenes to landscapes to figurative works and from realism to post-impressionism. His most successful pieces are his colorful genre scenes inspired by various locales, such as Rockport Harbor, Maine and Taos, New Mexico.

Newman’s works can now be found in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Newark Museum, the Boston Library, and the Library of Congress.

He died in Flushing, New York in 1979.