Joseph Lomoff Art

Joseph Lomoff was born in 1893 in Sevastopol, studied art in Odesa and immigrated to New York in 1915. During the Depression, Lomoff worked as an artist for the WPA program. His style vacillated between a gauzy, Abstract Cubism and social realism. Later in his career, Lomoff returned to his "Futurist" themes, but the paintings by Lomoff, which seem most appreciated today, are his social realist works. Lomoff tended to paint from a Proletarian view depicting the noble worker, as so many of his New York contemporaries, he must have visited the coal mining and industrial areas in surrounding states and gained a respect for the physical labor of the common man. Lomoff exhibited with the Society of Independent Artists in 1925, 1927–28, 1930, 1932–33, 1937 and 1940–41. The Brooklyn Museum holds several of his paintings.