Background
Anisfeld, Boris was born on October 2, 1879 in Russia. Son of Israel and Augusta Anisfeld.
Anisfeld, Boris was born on October 2, 1879 in Russia. Son of Israel and Augusta Anisfeld.
Graduate Petrograd Academy of Fine Arts, 1908.
Mistress Otis Chatfield-Taylor). Came to the United States, 1918, naturalized, 1924. Painted scenery for Mariinsky Theater, Petrograd Diagileff Opera Russe, Paris.
With Diaghileff’s Ballet Russe, 1907-1912.
Engaged by Metropolitan Opera, New York City, 1918-1925, to design costumes and scenery for Louisiana Rene Fiomet, Blue Bird, Le Roide Lahore, Mephistopheles, Snow Maiden. Designed costumes and scenery for opera Love of Three Oranges presented by the Chicago Opera Company.
Professor of advanced drawing and painting Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, from 1928. Exhibited at Petrograd World of Art (1904), Salon d’Automme, Paris (1906), Malmo North Exhibition, Sweden (1914), Milan, Italy, 1914.
One-man traveling exhibition of leading museums in the United States, 1918-1919.
Exhibited in Philadelphia Sesqui-centennial (gold medal), Chicago World’s Fair, San Francisco World’s Fair. Exhibited Lincoln Center Astor Gallery, 1968, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1971. Represented in Brooklyn Museum, Gardner Museum (Boston), Buffalo Museum, Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, also museums in principal cities of Russia, including the Russian Museum, Hermitage Museum (both Leningrad).
Home: Stonington, Connecticut
Married Frida Anisfeld, Petrograd, 1904 (died 1933).