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ELIAS GOLDBERG ”WASHINGTON HEIGHTS” NEW YORK OIL PAINTING - Original oil painting on canvas by listed artist, Elias Goldberg (NY, 1886 - 1978), as noted on the verso, depicting Washington Heights in New York. Art measures 27” h x 19” w presented in a frame measuring 38” x 30”.  Artist bio: Goldberg studied with George Bridgman at the Art Students League of New York. In 1915 his illustration work published in The Masses and in 1917 Goldberg illustrated an English language version of Souvenirs Entomologiques by the French entomologist Jean Henri Fabre. In 1935 he had his first one-man show at Another Place Gallery. In 1948 he had his first show at the Charles Egan Gallery and enjoyed friendships with Willem de Kooning and Elaine de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. In the 1950's, he befriended a younger generation of artists such as Knox Martin (a fellow artist in the Charles Egan Gallery), Reuben Nakian, Herman Rose, Peter Golfinopoulos and Joseph Stapleton. In the 1960's he had a series of critically acclaimed one-man shows at the Charles Egan Gallery. In 1973 he received a grant from the Mark Rothko Foundation.