Alvin M. Cohen Oil Painting

From the Estate Of American Artist Alvin M. CohennnPainted in Paris, titled, signed a full collection from this estate is also available for salenn nnOrigin:                           ParisnnIn the Style Of:             ModernnnTitle:                               Faces in Blue and WhitennMeasurements:            18_ Tall x 24_ widennMedium:                        oil on panelnnCondition:                     goodnnArtist:                            Alvin M. Cohen (1925-2003, American)nnCreation date:             1955nnAlvin M. Cohennn1923-2003nnBorn in Utica New York. He entered Pratt Institute in New York after graduation from Forest Park in Baltimore. When World War Two began he enlisted in the Army and became a Private First Class in the Army Air Corps.nnWhile in the Army he filled sketchbooks with drawings while he traveled thru India and Burma and ended his tour of duty in Okinawa. He did cartoons for the Army New Letter and painted sexy women on the side of fighter planes.nnAfter the war he finished his education at UMD studying art with Herman Meril. After earning a degree at Johns Hopkins in business he used the GI Bill to go to Paris in the early 50’s and study art with Fernand Leger.nnIn Paris he studied with Fernand Leger from 1951-1952. He won the Grand Prize of the Exposition of the Atelier in 1951. There is a copy of a letter from Leger praising his work dated 1951.nnHe had an exhibition in Paris in 1951 at the Galerie Raymond DuncannnHe spent his time in Paris creating an immense body of work following in the Cubist style. In addition, he also did many watercolor and pencil sketches of his travels though the rest of Europe including Italy and Spain’nnIn 1953 he got married and they lived in the DC area and had two children, he worked for some advertising agencies in those years, and for a time with the Washington Post. In the early 70’s he began working again for the Post and continued there for 25 years as assistant art director.nnHe died on March 25, 2003 at the age of 80