Irving Norman
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Title: Cross…Road, 1973
Artist: Irving Norman (Polish-American 1906-1989)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 110 ½ x 72 inches.
Permanent Collection: Crocker Art Museum
Gift of Hela Norman
Image Courtesy: Crocker Art Museum
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Irving Norman liked to shock with his artwork. Sometimes considered a social surrealist Norman used his works as commentary on his views of modern life and the society
within which he lived.
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Norman was born 100 years ago in Vilna. He emigrated to the USA from his native
Poland after surviving World War I. He was a leftist throughout his life which
caused him to see action in the Spanish Civil War as a volunteer in the
Abraham Lincoln Battalion fighting against the fascist Franco Loyalists.
His unsettling political beliefs caught the attention
of the FBI who kept the artist under surveillance for over 20 years.
Title: To Have and Have Not (Charity Gala), 1979-1980
Artist: Irving Norman (Polish-American 1906-1989)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 92 x 104 inches.
Collection of Hela Norman.
Image Courtesy: Crocker Art Museum
Scott A. Shields, Ph.D., Chief Curator at the Crocker Art Museum, curated the
exhibit, which is comprised of approximately
25 large-scale paintings along with 14 examples of the artist’s works on paper.
Title: From Work, 1978
Artist: Irving Norman (Polish-American 1906-1989)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 80 x 92 inches.
Permanent Collection: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Gift of Hela Norman
Image Courtesy: Crocker Art Museum
Irving Norman
Crocker Art Museum:
September 23, 2006 - January 7, 2007
Pasadena Museum of California Art:
January 26 - May 13, 2007
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah:
June 5 - October 13, 2007
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