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).
Additional Artworks
From John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art
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Unknown
On Location with George C. Scott, 1978
Color lithograph
8.125 x 7.25 in
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John Hunter
Love, 1978
Lithograph
22.5 x 15 in
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Russell T. Gordon
Hot Dog Bridge, 1978
Lithograph
15.25 x 12 in
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Frank Stack
Jean, 1978
Lithograph
14.375 x 9.5 in
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Frank Stack
Mirror Nude, 1978
Lithograph
11.75 x 8 in
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Robert Ecker
Melancholia II, 1978
Mezzotint
4 x 4 in
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Robert R. Malone
Morning, 1978
Lithograph
12.5 x 19.875 in
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Robert R. Malone
Night, 1978
Lithograph
12.375 x 20 in
About the artist
Irwin Hollander
