Hananiah Harari

Hananiah Harari (August 29, 1912 – July 19, 2000) was an American painter and illustrator.

Harari was born Richard (Dick) Falk Goldman, in Rochester, New York. He studied at the Syracuse University School of Fine Arts. He went to Paris in the 1930s, where he studied taking into account Fernand Léger from 1932 to 1934; he afterward studied subsequent to Marcel Gromaire and André Lhote. Following a visit to Palestine, he returned to the United States in 1935.

He helped found the American Abstract Artists in 1936. Some of his works of this time record his wave as a Jew to the rise of Fascism in Europe; an example is The Dictators (1938, oil and collage on canvas; now in the Jewish Museum, New York). His first New York exhibition was in 1939, at Mercury Gallery. He worked in both a semi-abstract style, and a truthful realist style; inspired by the undertaking of William Michael Harnett, he painted many trompe-l'œil still lifes. Several silkscreens from this mature are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the Yale University Collection.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1940s he produced artwork for the covers of magazines, including Fortune. He afterward contributed cartoons to The New Masses, which led to his being blacklisted in the 1950s during the McCarthy era. Using his gifts for Realism, he became a wealthy portrait painter affiliated subsequent to Portraits, Inc. One of his portraits is in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. Harari taught at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan from 1974 to 1990, and at the Art Students League from 1984 to 1999, where most of his classes were filled to capacity. He stopped teaching like he could no longer see. With the Reagan presidency, his embassy leanings became increasingly conservative. A patriot to the end, and per his request, his coffin was draped with the American flag. He was elected into the National Academy of Design in 1990 as an Associate aficionado and became a full Academician in 1994.^{[citation needed]}

In 1997 a traveling retrospective of his take effect was mounted at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey. He died in Halthorne, New York in 2000.

Harari's take steps is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.