Hananiah Harari
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Hananiah Harari (August 29, 1912 – July 19, 2000) was an American painter and illustrator.
He was born in Rochester, New York, and studied at the Syracuse University School of Fine Arts. He went to Paris in the 1930s, where he studied with Fernand Léger from 1932–34; he also studied with Marcel Gromaire and André Lhote. Following a visit to Palestine he returned to the United States in 1935.
Harari was active in leftist politics, and helped found the American Artists' Union in 1936. His first New York exhibition was in 1939, at Mercury Gallery. He worked in both a semi-abstract style, and a precise realist style; inspired by the work of William Michael Harnett, he painted many trompe l'oeil still lifes.
In the 1940s he produced artwork for the covers of magazines, including Fortune. He also contributed cartoons to The New Masses, which led to his being blacklisted in the 1950s during the McCarthy era.
In 1997 a traveling retrospective of his work was mounted at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey.
He died in Halthorne, New York in 2000.
[edit] External links
- 1992 Interview with Harari conducted by G. Stavitsky for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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