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...young Jewish twins, whose family had been exiled from imperial Russia, knew hardly any English when they went to their first American school, but Moses and Raphael Soyer were accomplished in another kind of language that quickly endeared them to their teachers. Whenever a holiday approached, they were set to work decorating the halls and classrooms, for no one else in the school could paint a livelier Easter rabbit, a jollier Santa Claus or a spookier Halloween witch than the Soyer boys. Today, at 62, the twins-as well as their younger brother Isaac-are noted artists whose quiet...
...book about him-Moses Soyer, by Charlotte Willard (World; $12.50)- has just been published, and Manhattan's ACA gallery has on display a handsome exhibition of his latest work, chiefly a rich array of nudes...
...Raphael Soyer...
...Previous winners in painting: Charles Burchfield, Andrew Wyeth, Rico Lebrun and Raphael Soyer. In other years, the award is given for sculpture, the novel, poetry and drama...
...none too lighthearted: a series of nights during World War I from his native Austria to Budapest and finally to the U.S. in 1921, when he was 17. At one time he was a bus boy in Atlantic City; at another, he and his close friend, Painter Raphael Soyer, enrolled in a class to learn machine embroidery. When Gross got married, friends had to help out. "Someone bought me a ring; someone else provided the wedding supper, and a third bought the marriage license." All the while he studied art, but before 1935, the year...