Jules Kirschenbaum (1930-2000) was and artist and painter born in New York in 1930. In 1944, he enrolled in the High School of Music and Art and in 1948 he attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Much of his influence comes from 15th-century Italian and Netherlandish artists, whom he first encountered on a European trip with a fellow artist and friend from school. His first one-man exhibition occurred at the age of just 25 and he won The Brooklyn Museum Art School Prize at The National Academy of Design that same year. Kirschenbaum is also recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Italy, a MacDowell Fellowship, and the Benjamin Altman First Prize for Figure Painting, the most prestigious honor from the National Academy of Design. He eventually became a full professor at Drake University.
Jules Kirschenbaum
Studios
Adams
Jules Kirschenbaum worked in the Adams studio.
Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…