page_title: Philip Zuchman
section_title: Painting career
hierarchical_section_title: Philip Zuchman / Painting career
caption_attribution_description: English: Evening falls on...
context_page_description: Philip Zuchman is a contemporary American landscape painter living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
context_section_description: Zuchman has served as president of the National Forum of Professional Artists, vice president of Philadelphia Artists Equity, and vice president of the Philadelphia Watercolor Society. He was a Professor of Studio Art and Aesthetics, Emeritus, at the Art Institute of Philadelphia until 2013. Zuchman’s paintings have been exhibited internationally as part of the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies Program, for which he is a Cultural Ambassador.
  Philip Zuchman currently lives in West Philadelphia with his wife, painter Deborah Gross-Zuchman. The couple has restored their 19th century home and studio and occasionally hold arts and culture events there. The house features their paintings, carvings, mosaics and murals. In 2013, Philip was named an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Philadelphia Watercolor Society. In 2019, the Puffin Foundation awarded Philip a grant for “Lamentations,” a handmade book dedicated to people, past and present, who have suffered from migration, displacement and exile. He received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.
caption: "Evening Falls On"
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