Disliking school, Irwin, at 14, dropped out in the eighth grade and spent the next two years on his own in Hartford, out of the reach of New York City truant officers. Upon his return, he attended the School of Industrial Art, a technical high school in Manhattan (now the High School of Art and Design), and spent two years at Washington Irving High School, also in Manhattan, studying fashion illustration, life drawing and photography in night classes. By 1945 he had quit school altogether and, with a cousin’s help, gotten a job at R. H. Macy’s taking photographs for advertisements. Editors’ PicksAfter leaving the Army, Mr. Hollander used the G.I. Bill to attend the Brooklyn Museum Art School for a year, the Esmeralda National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking in Mexico City, and the Art Students League in Manhattan, where his favorite teacher was the painter Edwin Dickinson (1891-1978).
Irwin Hollander
Mann of E.S., 1978
Lithograph
16.5 x 10.5 in
