Arnold Friedman

Arnold Friedman (February 23, 1879 – December 29, 1946) was an American Modernist painter.

He was born in Corona, Queens, worked for the Federal Art Project and studied at the Art Students League of New York under the auspices of Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller. In 1909, he took a six-month leave of non-attendance from his job to laboratory analysis art in Paris. During this time, he was introduced to the styles of Impressionism and Cubism. He exhibited next many of the most innovative venues and dealers of the period, including the Society of Independent Artists.

Friedman painted the mural Rice Growing at the Kingstree, South Carolina broadcast office with the incite of New Deal funds in 1940. His painting Landscape has been upon display at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York. He as well as competed in the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics.