Isaac Soyer (April 26, 1902 – July 8, 1981) was a Russian-born American social realist painter and educator.
[3] Their father, Abraham Shauer, a Hebrew scholar, writer and teacher,[4] raised his six children in an intellectual environment in which much emphasis was placed on academic and artistic pursuits.
[6] Due to the many difficulties for the Jewish population in the late Russian Empire, the Soyer family was forced to emigrate in 1912 to the United States, where they ultimately settled in the Bronx.
[12] Soyer's work Employment Agency (1937) reveals the social realities of the years of the Great Depression.
[17][18] Soyer died of a heart attack at Lenox Hill Hospital on July 8, 1981, at age 79; he was residing in Manhattan at the time.