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Schapiro: His Painting, Drawing and
Sculpture (Harry N. Abrams; $49.50),
in which, for the first time, more than
200 of his works are published.
His widow (and wife of 67 years),
pediatrician Lillian Milgram Schapiro,
with the aid of their nephew Daniel
Esterrnan, assembled the pieces. The
volume includes Lillian's introductory
essay, three previously unpublished arti-
cles by Schapiro and a preface by former
New York Times art critic John Russell.
The Lithuanian-born Schapiro came
to the United States as a small child in
1907. He was one of the first Jews to
join the faculty at Columbia University,
where he remained throughout his
career, until his death in 1996.
Schapiro was a mentor and friend to
such artists as de Kooning, Newman,
Rothko, Segal and Motherwell.
A life-long Marxist who drifted
away from political involvement with
his disappointment at the failure of
socialism, Schapiro developed a strong
attachment to Israel. In 1983, the
Bezalel Academy awarded him the
Jerusalem Prize for Arts & Letters.
Schapiro's works in this book range
from the 1920s through the 1980s.
They include self-portraits, drawings
of his wife and children, views of his
retreats in Vermont and Florida and,
of special interest, his renderings of
notable intellectuals of his day, includ-
ing Irving Howe, Bernard Berenson
and Isaiah Berlin.
Meyer Schapiro referred to himself
as a "summer painter," but notes John
Russell, "there are summer painters
who bring to their work a freshness, a
heightened awareness and a readiness
to try anything.
"[Schapiro's] every decision sprang
from a lifelong determination to col-
lect, classify and define every kind of
experience that came his way. Not
only did he remember everything that -
had ever come to his notice, but he
also knew its exact place in the general
scheme of things. What he wanted
from life was the quiet hum of undi-
luted celebration, and he got it."

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