Picnic in May

About The Artist: Andre Racz

Andre Racz, painter, printmaker, educator and sculptor, was born in Cluj, Romania on November 21, 1916. He graduated from the University of Bucharest in 1935 and came to the U.S. in 1939 as a member of the Romanian Art Commission in connection with the New York World’s Fair. He settled in New York where he studied printmaking at Atelier 17 in the 1940s. Racz was a Professor of painting and sculpture at Columbia University from 1951 to...