Gabriel Laderman (December 26, 1929[1] – March 10, 2011[2]) was a New York painter and an early and important exponent of the Figurative revival of the 1950s and 1960s.
[3] He studied with a number of leading American painters, including Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko.
In 1948 he began by doing the exercises in Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook, which at the time was available only in the original Bauhaus edition in German.
He met de Kooning that summer and began to show him his work in September of that year on a regular basis, while also attending Brooklyn College where he studied with Ad Reinhardt, Alfred Russell, Mark Rothko, Burgoyne Diller, Jimmy Ernst, Stanley William Hayter and Robert J. Wolff (the chairman of the department).
After two years at New Paltz he was offered a raise in rank, but chose to return to New York where he taught at Pratt Institute until 1967 when he began teaching at Queens College, CUNY.