An American landscape and portrait painter of Russian-Jewish background, who was born on 10th August 1901 in Vilna – now Vilnius, Lithuania, but then in north-east Poland and part of the Russian Empire. His parents were Barnet Rogozen (1877–1939) and his wife Esther (nėe Gershon/Gerson, 1874–1932). In 1904 his father emigrated to the United States and gained work as a cigar maker at the Ohio Stogie Company in Cleveland, Ohio, with the family following in 1906. The other children were ‘Ette’/Ethel, Abraham, Alex, Hyman, and Ida (later Orner), one or more of the younger ones being born in America. ‘Jo’ Rogozen, as he became generally known, graduated from the Cleveland School of Art in 1926 and was taught there by F. C. Gottwald, who said that he was the most talented student he had in 41 years of teaching.

Text source: Art Detective


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