Herman Rose

Originally trained as a draftsman and studied at the National Academy of Design from 1927 to 1929,[2] he was later employed by the Works Progress Administration's Murals Division under Arshile Gorky from 1934 until 1939.

Rappaport began using the name Herman Rose when he held his first solo art exhibition in 1946 at the Charles Egan Gallery in New York City.

[1] Although he initially began as an Expressionistic painter, he became known for small, light-filled Impressionist paintings of still life, cityscapes and skies by the early 1950s.

Over the next forty years Rose's works were featured in over 20 separate solo art exhibitions,[1] including a group show, at the Louis Stern Gallery in Beverly Hills, CA which featured Marc Chagall, Henri Fantin-Latour, Alberto Giacometti, Robert Maplethorpe, Henri Matisse, Edwin Dickinson, Georgia O'Keeffe and Pablo Picasso.

[1] He held additionally posts at Hofstra University, Pratt Institute and Queens College before taking a teaching position at The New School from 1963 until his retirement in 1990.