Draft:Eugene Chodorow
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EUGENE CHODOROW March 15, 1910-October 2, 2000
Eugene Chodorow (March 15, 1910 – October 2, 2000) a serigrapher, lithographer, sculptor, painter and muralist, was active in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project.
Chodorow was born in Medzhybizh Ukraine and emigrated to the United States in 1927. After working various odd jobs in New York City, he studied at the Educational Alliance in New York.
Chodorow was one of five artists who worked with Anton Refregier. These artists worked for the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project (WPA-FAP) in the 1930’s, painting a mural for the children’s ward at Greenpoint Hospital in Brooklyn.[1]
After finishing the murals at Greenpoint Hospital, Chodorow conceived of murals on the history of aviation and contacted an old friend, August “Gus” Henkel. Four panels were designed, and each artist did two panels. Chodorow and Henkel each designed two panels. Henkel created panels on the “Mythology of Flight” and the “First Beginnings”. Chodorow did the panels on “Aviation in Peace” and “Aviation in War”.[2] These panels were to be displayed at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York.
The panels were hung with tape when an article appeared in a Sunday New York Times on July 7, 1940 with the headline: “Red Propaganda in WPA Murals at Floyd Bennett Field Charged”. Some of the controversy was over the image of a red star on a plane, and an image of a man thought to be Stalin. The accusations of Communist propaganda were later dismissed, but by then, the murals had been destroyed.
Chodorow enlisted in the Marines during WWII and worked as an artist. He painted two murals for an auditorium at the Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton in the late 1940’s. One was of a beach landing on an island in the Pacific Ocean.
During his military service, Chodorow became friends with Evans Fordyce Carlson, a U.S. Marine Corp General, and the legendary leader of “Carlson’s Raiders”.
Portrait of General Carlson done by Chodorow about 1946.
After the war, and using the G.I. Bill, Chodorow studied sculpting in Paris with Ossip Zadkine[3], and learned lost wax casting techniques.
These castings were done in the early 1950’s in Southern California.
An Oral History interview with Eugene Chodorow was done on August 4, 1965 and is in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Greenpoint Hospital Mural – Brooklyn NY". The Living New Deal.
- ^ Geoffrey, Arend (Jan 1, 1981). Great Airports, Kennedy International: A Picture History—Idlewild to JFK. New York: Air Cargo News, Inc. pp. 26–31.
- ^ "Ossip Zadkine". The Johnson Collection.
- ^ "Oral history interview with Eugene Chodorow". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. 24 August 1965. Retrieved 27 March 2023.