Joseph Raskin

American (1897-1981)

Joseph (Jos) Raskin was born in Nogaisk, Russia and moved to the United States to pursue his study of art. In 1921 he was the recipient of the National Academy of Designís European Scholarship and was awarded a Fellowship through the Tiffany Fund. A member of the American Artists Congress, Raskin was both a painter and printmaker and showed at various solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. Some of these included the Association of American Artists exhibit of 1945, the National Academy of Design, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in Richmond, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Annual Exhibit of 1930. Raskin spent most of his life in New York City where he created works ranging from scenes of everyday life to portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. The Smithsonian American Art Museum now holds Raskinís painting ìSixth Avenue L.î which originally hung in the Department of Labor Building in Washington, D.C.. Other works by Raskin can be found in the Dartmouth University Library and the Harvard Law School Library, as well as various galleries.