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David Aronson was a painter and Professor of Art at Boston University.

Background

Aronson, David was born on October 28, 1923 in Shilova, Lithuania. Son of Peisach Leib and Gertrude (Shapiro) Aronson. came to the United States, 1929, naturalized, 1931.

Education

Certificate, Boston Museum School, 1946. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hebrew College, 1993. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Boston University, 2005.

Career

He taught at Boston University from 1955 to his death in 2015, where he formed the Fine Art Department. As an artist, he exhibited in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Rome, Berlin and Copenhagen, among others His work is represented in over forty museums.

Aronson"s work is associated with the school of Boston Expressionism.

Aronson died at the age of 91 on July 2, 2015 from pneumonia and chronic heart failure. David Aronson: The Paradox - Danforth Museum of Art Silkscreen in MoMA Collection "Edmund Burke" bronze relief in the Smithsonian American Art Museum "Blind Samson" in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Achievements

  • David Aronson has been listed as a notable Artist, art educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Georgianna B. Nyman, June 10, 1956. Children: Judith, Benjamin, Abigail.

Father:
Peisach Leib Aronson

Mother:
Gertrude (Shapiro) Aronson

Spouse:
Georgianna B. Nyman

child:
Benjamin Aronson

child:
Judith Aronson

child:
Abigail Aronson

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Awards

  • Recipient 1st Judges prize Institute Modern Art, Boston, 1944, 1st Popular prize, 1944. Choice Friends of Art The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1946. Purchase prize Virginia Museum Fine Arts, 1946. Travelling fellow Boston Museum School, 1946. Grand prize Boston Arts Festival, 1952, 54. 2d prize, 1953; 1st prize Tupperware Art Fund, 1954, certified of merit for sculpture National Academy of Design, 1990. Grantee in art National Institute Arts and Letters, 1958. Purchase prize,1961, 62, 63. Purchase prize Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, also other purchase prizes. Samuel F.B. Morse Gold medal National Academy of Design, 1973. Isaac N. Maynard prize National Academy of Design, 1975. Joseph S. Isidor gold medal National Academy of Design, 1976. Guggenheim fellow, 1960. Adolph and Clara Obrig prize National Academy of Design, 1968, Academician National Academy of Design, 1970.