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Irving Seidmon Docktor (July 10, 1918 – February 14, 2008) was an American artist and educator best known for his work as a book and magazine illustrator in the 1950s and 1960s. An early work on the history of paperbacks identified Docktor and Edward Gorey as executing some of the most interesting and appealing cover designs in the field.[1]

Docktor in his studio in the 1960s
Docktor in his studio in the 1960s

Early life


Irving Seidmon Docktor was born and raised in Philadelphia. He graduated from Central High School in Philadelphia, and won a scholarship to the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) and the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. A weight lifter in his youth, Docktor performed in walk-on roles with Mary Binney Montgomery's ballet troupe while he was in college as a supernumerary actor, a job he obtained one day while sketching the dancers during their rehearsal. When Docktor noticed the male lead had trouble lifting his partner, he stepped in and was offered a position on the spot.[2]


Career



Illustration


Docktor, Men in Shawls, from the Heritage series (ca. 1975)
Docktor, Men in Shawls, from the Heritage series (ca. 1975)

After graduating from art school, Docktor entered the army and was trained in photography. During World War II, he served as an aerial photographer in a map-making unit in the Technical Intelligence Team based in Australia and the Philippines. The sketches he made during this period served as visual referents for some of his later work, such as his illustrations for a book "We Were There At The Battle For Bataan" by Benjamin Appel.[citation needed]


Fine art


Detail from Grigory Gurevich's sculpture The Commuters (1984)
Detail from Grigory Gurevich's sculpture The Commuters (1984)

During this period, Docktor also pursued a separate career as a fine artist. A mural commission in 1960 led him to relocate temporarily from Fort Lee, New Jersey, to New York City, and eventually to shift his emphasis from commercial illustration. By the late 1960s he had refocused on fine art, exhibiting paintings in numerous galleries and art shows in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. In additions to landscapes and nudes, Docktor also returned repeatedly to a sequence of paintings he called the "Heritage series," featuring juxtaposed figures and faces from village life in the old world. “With technical perfection, the mystic characteristics and pathos give his art an exquisite, aesthetic quality,” remarked one reviewer in 1963.[3]

Docktor taught part-time at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. At age 60, he began teaching full-time at the High School of Art and Design in New York City, his first full-time job, which he held for 15 years.[4]


Personal life


Docktor married Mildred Sylvia Himmelstein.[5]

In 1957, Docktor lived in a home overlooking the Hudson River. After receiving a commission in 1960 to do murals in New York City, he spent most of his time there. In 1975, they moved back to Fort Lee, New Jersey. They frequently went to museums, the theatre, the Metropolitan Opera, the Philharmonic, the American Ballet Theatre, and the New York City Ballet. During performances, Docktor sketched what he was seeing in his copy of Playbill.[4]

Docktor died February 14, 2008.[4]


Published works



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Bibliography



References


  1. Frank L. Schick, The Paperbound Book in America: The History of Paperbacks and their European Background (New York: RR Bowker, 1958), p. 194.
  2. In Memoriam: Irv Docktor". Portfolio (Philadelphia Sketch Club), May 2008.
  3. "The Art of Irv Docktor," Cavalcade, December 1963.
  4. Sloan, Michael (February 26, 2008). "Irv Docktor 1918-2008". Drawger.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2011.
  5. "Himmelstein, Morris M." The Baltimore Sun. July 5, 2006. Archived from the original on March 13, 2014.


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Irving Seidmon Docktor, appelé également Irv Docktor, né le 10 juillet 1918 et décédé le 14 février 2008 était un artiste et professeur d'art américain, principalement connu pour sa carrière d'illustrateur dans les années 1950 et 1960. Sa technique de dessin distinctive mettant en scène des superpositions de personnages aux expressions sombres a fait de lui un illustrateur instantanément reconnaissable à sa technique[1].


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