Raphael Soyer

Raphael Soyer (1899–1987) immigrated to the United States in 1912 and grew up on New York’s Lower East Side. A central figure of the Fourteenth Street School and a leading American social realist, he was the subject of a 1967 Whitney Museum retrospective and later solo exhibitions at the National Collection of Fine Arts (1977) and the Hirshhorn Museum (1982).