Morris Kantor

Morris Kantor was a Belarusian-born American painter known for his stylistic versatility, from Cubism to realism, including his iconic "Baseball At Night."

ABOUT

Morris Kantor, born in Minsk in 1896, was brought to the United States at the age of ten, joining his father in 1906. He settled in West Nyack, New York, where he lived for much of his life, and maintained a studio in downtown Manhattan near Union Square, as well as on Cape Cod in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Despite working in the Garment District upon his arrival in New York City, Kantor began formal art studies in 1916 at the Independent School of Art under Homer Boss. Kanto…

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NOTABLE WORKS

Haunted House 1885 · Art Institute of Chicago Untitled 1916 · Art Institute of Chicago A Portrait 1921 · Whitney Museum of American Art Untitled 1947 · Smithsonian American Art Museum Synthetic Arrangement 1922 · Smithsonian American Art Museum Two Figure Arrangement 1923 · Whitney Museum of American Art

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INFLUENCES

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Knox MartinAbstract Expressionism Robert RauschenbergNeo-Dada Sigmund AbelesFigurative Art Susan WeilAbstract Expressionism