David Aronson

David Aronson (October 28, 1923 – July 2, 2015) was a painter and Professor of Art at Boston University.

Biography
Aronson was born in  Šiluva, Lithuania in 1923. He taught at Boston University from 1955 to his death in 2015, where he formed the Fine Art Department. As an artist, he exhibited in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Rome, Berlin and Copenhagen, among others. His work is represented in over forty museums.

Aronson's work is associated with the school of Boston Expressionism.

Aronson died at the age of 91 on July 2, 2015 from pneumonia and chronic heart failure.

Collections  
 Art Institute of Chicago
 DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Mass.
 Israel Museum, Jerusalem
 Keene State College, Keene, N.H.
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
 Museum of Modern Art, New York
 New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
 National Academy Museum and School, New York
 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
 University of New Hampshire Museum of Art, Durham

Awards  
 Guggenheim Fellowship  - List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1960
 Election as Academician at the National Academy of Design, New York in 1967
 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Hebrew College, Newton, Massachusetts.

Exhibitions
 David Aronson: The Paradox - Danforth Museum of Art

References

Images
 Silkscreen in MoMA Collection
 "Edmund Burke" bronze relief in the Smithsonian American Art Museum
 "Blind Samson" in the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Category:1923 births
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Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:21st-century American painters
Category:American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
Category:Artists from Boston
Category:School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts alumni
Category:Boston University faculty
Category:Guggenheim Fellows
Category:Jewish American artists
Category:Jewish painters
Category:Lithuanian emigrants to the United States
Category:National Academy of Design members
Category:Deaths from pneumonia
Category:Boston expressionism