Chaim Koppelman (1920-2009) American, Etching and Aquatint, "Wings of the Dove". Pencil signed and titled.

Overall Size: 25 1/2 x 22 1/2 in. 

Sight Size: 18 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.

Chaim Koppelman (1920-2009). A noted American artist and educator, he was admired for the originality, power, and humanity of his work. Chaim Koppelman was born in Brooklyn in 1920.  He studied art in WPA classes, and studied lithography and painting with Eugene Morley and Carl Holty at the American Artists School, sculpture with Jose de Creeft, and etching with Will Barnet and Martin Lewis at the Art Students League. In 1943 he married painter Dorothy Myers shortly before going overseas with the Army.  He was proud to have been part of the Normandy invasion, and was awarded the Bronze Star. Returning to New York, he enrolled, under the GI Bill, at the Amédée Ozenfant School and became Ozenfant's assistant.  Koppelman later started the Broome Street Etching Workshop. In 1955 the Terrain Gallery opened, with Dorothy Koppelman as director and Chaim Koppelman as print curator. He founded the Printmaking Division at the School of Visual Arts in 1959, and taught there until 2007.  Earlier, he taught at NYU and at SUNY, New Paltz.  On the faculty of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, he taught artists what he had learned: how to have the art purpose in everyday life as well as in the studio.  He also taught there the popular course "The Art of Drawing: Surface and Depth." A member of the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts since 1971, Chaim Koppelman was also a Past President of the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA), which presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. He represented the US in Documenta II, in Kassel, Germany, was awarded two Tiffany Grants, and received numerous awards for his drawings and prints.  In 1992 Chaim Koppelman, Robert Blackburn, and Will Barnet received a New York Artists Equity Award for their dedicated service to the printmaking community. Chaim Koppelman died on December 6, 2009 at age 89 in New York City. His prints are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Guggenheim Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Gallery, and others. He is a member of the National Academy of Design.

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