Joseph Raffael
Joseph Raffael was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933. He studied at Cooper Union and received a summer fellowship to the Yale-Norfolk School in 1954. He received a BFA degree from Yale University School of Art in 1956, studying with Josef Albers. His early 1960s photorealist paintings depicted nature based on photographs of animals, ponds and foliage. Raffael's media changed from oil to watercolor, pastel and lithography as his interpretations of natural phenomena became more impressionistic.
Raffael has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work may be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution.
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February Lily 1982
Pastel, Watercolor and Graphite on Paper
22 x 28 inches |
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