Sam Himmelfarb

Sam Himmelfarb (July 4, 1904 – December 17, 1976) was a Latvian-born, American performer and billboard exhibit designer, known for his modernist-influenced paintings of unidentified people and urban scenes. He also expected the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Samuel and Eleanor Himmelfarb Home and Studio (built, 1942) in Winfield, Illinois, which is listed upon the National Register of Historic Places. Himmelfarb studied art at the Art Students League and National Academy of Design in New York and at the Wisconsin School of Fine and Applied Arts. He initially painted in a realist style influenced by the Ashcan School, which gave habit to more modernist, increasingly abstract styles. His paintings appeared in exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), Terra Museum of American Art, Milwaukee Art Institute, and Arts Club of Chicago, and in circulating shows from the American Federation of Arts, among supplementary venues. He normal awards from the AIC, Wisconsin State Fair and Milwaukee Art Museum, and his law belongs to the buildup of the latter, and those of the Illinois State Museum, Block Museum, and Arkansas Art Center, among others. Himmelfarb was married to the artiste and educator, Eleanor Himmelfarb (1910-2009); their son, John Himmelfarb (b. 1946), and granddaughter, Serena (b. 1986), are as well as artists.