About Wilfrid Zogbaum
Lived 1915 – 1965 (aged 49). Wilfrid Zogbaum was an American painter, sculptor, printmaker and photographer.
Wilfrid "Zog" Zogbaum (1915 – January 7, 1965) was an American painter, sculptor, and educator. He was also a commercial photographer in the late 1940s,
Life Wilfrid Zogbaum was born in 1915 in Newport, Rhode Island. Zogbaum's father was Admiral Rufus F. Zogbaum, Jr., and his grandfather was painter Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum.
He studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design for two summers. Followed by study at Yale School of Fine Arts (now Yale School of Art), under John Sloan, and Hans Hoffman. In 1937, Zogbaum was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to studied in Europe. His papers are held at the Archives of American Art.
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American painter and sculptor (1915-1965)
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Wilfrid Zogbaum was born on 10 September 1915 in Newport.
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Wilfrid Zogbaum died on 7 January 1965 in New York City.
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Wilfrid Zogbaum was a painter, sculptor, printmaker and photographer.
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