Triumphant Youth (WPA)

 

Lawrence Edward Kupferman

  1909 - 1982 (biography)

1936  

Drypoint 

5 7/8 x 4 15/16" platemark 

signature on verso in unknown hand 

about 28 impressions 

Stamped Works Progress Administration, Art Project, Massachusetts; pencil signed, dated, and date stamped on upper left of verso 

Philadelphia Museum of Art FA 15263 

cream wove 

Published 

Massachusetts WPA 

AFAE190 

$100.00 

Lawrence Edward Kupferman was born March 25, 1900 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He studied at the Boston Museum School with Philip Leslie Hale and H. Alden Ripley from 1929-1931, then at Massachusetts School of Art with Ernest L. Majors and Otis Philbrick from 1931-1935. His success in art allowed him to become a member of the Society of American Etchers, an associate at the National Academy, and at the Philadelphia Watercolor Club. He received awards from American Artists for Victory in 1942, San Francisco Art Association, and the Society of American Etchers both in 1939. Kupferman instructed at the Massachusetts Schools of Art from 1941-1970 and he later died in Boston, Massachusetts of Parkinson's disease in October 2, 1982.