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Mitchell Siporin (1910–1976) was a Social Realist American painter.
Biography
Mitchell Siporin was born in New York City and grew up in Chicago. He did illustrations for Esquire and other magazines. Through the Works Progress Administration, he worked as a painter. Together with Edward Millman, he painted "the largest single mural project awarded for a post office by the Section of Fine Arts" in the Central Post Office in St Louis, Missouri. From 1946 to 1949, he served in the army in North Africa and Italy. In 1949, he won the Prix de Rome in painting.
In 1951, he founded the Department of Fine Arts at Brandeis University. In 1956, he became the first curator of the Brandeis University Art Collection.
Works
Additional works by Siporin can be found in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and Albert G. Lane Technical High School in Chicago, Il.
In 1947 his painting End of an Era won the Logan Medal of the Arts at the 51st Annual Exhibition in Chicago.
He was Jewish.