Artists' statement
name: label: Creator
content: Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Artists' statements
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Provenance uncertain.
creator: label: Creator
content: Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Soyer was a painter; New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1947
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.soyerapa
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel N69-98 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A typed letter from Raphael Soyer to "Dear Fellow Artist," enclosing a statement from a "group of artists" regarding the "status of our profession today." The statement, approved by 31 artists, deplores the growing dominance of art theorists and museum officials who were causing art, particularly abstract art, to become esoteric and exclusive. Among the artists whose names appear on the statement are Jacob Lawrence, William Gropper, Chaim Gross, Edward Hopper, Xavier Gonzalez, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Soyer and his brother Moses, Isabel Bishop, and Abraham Rattner.