Ralph Dubin (1919-1988) began studying art at Brooklyn College, where he was strongly influenced by modern artist Ben Shahn. He also attended the American Artist School, the Beaux Artes in France, and the Brooklyn Museum Art School, where his work evolved from social realism into one more heavily influenced by abstract forms. Dubin was a teacher at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, Queens College, High School for Music and Art, and the New School for Social Research in New York City. His work is represented in many private and public collections, including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Cornell University, and the Museum of Modern Art. For 20 years, he was represented by Kraushaar Gallery in New York City. Dubin passed away in Manhattan. posthumous retrospective of his work was exhibited at the Westbeth Gallery in New York City in 2002.
Ralph Dubin
Studios
New Hampshire
Ralph Dubin worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…