SAMUEL HALPERT (1884 1930) Study of Sheridan Square

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SAMUEL HALPERT (1884-1930)
Study of Sheridan Square.

Oil on canvas, circa 1920. 470x600 mm; 18½x23 inches.

Provenance
Downtown Gallery, New York, with a pencil inscription on the stretcher.
Private collection, Massachusetts.

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The present oil on canvas is a study of Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village, and may be related to his larger painting, Sheridan Square (1918).

Samuel Halpert was born in Bialystok, Russia and immigrated to New York in 1889. He worked as a newspaper peddler until he met the artist Jacob Epstein, who gave him drawing lessons. From there, Halpert studied with Henry McBride at the Educational Alliance and at the National Academy of Design. In 1902, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and exhibited at the "Salon d'Automne" from 1905 through 1911 with other forward thinking young artists. In 1912, Halpert returned to New York and exhibited at the Armory Show the following year. He further advanced his career in New York with his first solo exhibition at the Daniel Gallery in 1914. Halpert also exhibited at the People's Art Guild, where he met Edith Gregor Fiviosioovitch (Fein), whom he married in 1918. Edith Gregor Halpert established the Downtown Gallery in 1926 in Greenwich Village, dedicated to exhibiting contemporary artists, like their personal friends, and artists who were marginalized by larger commercial galleries, like Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Jacob Lawrence. In 1927, Samuel accepted a job at the Art School of the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit. His marriage was already strained, and his divorce was finalized by the end of March 1930, shortly before his death on April 5 of an ear infection. Despite their personal turmoil, Edith worked to promote her husband's art, mounting a solo exhibition at her gallery in 1928 and arranging another at the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo.