David Kupferman and Lawrence Kupferman

David Kupferman is the son of Lawrence Kupferman, with works by both artists represented here. Lawrence studied and later taught at Massachusetts College of Art and brought his family up in the Boston area. Originally a tightly realist printmaker in the 1930s, Lawrence loosened his style considerably during his modernist years, exploring such themes as underwater seascapes and, as in this case, the feelings and colors of a sunny summer morning. He became an influential “figurative expressionist,” as the Boston school of abstraction was known. His later paintings have been described as “poetic visions of the inner eye.”

His son David studied in Switzerland and at the University of Wisconsin, in addition to apprenticing with his father. His graceful, swooping textures and colors are controlled within a compositional geometry that results in a subtle stability, perhaps more at ease than the more free-form expressionist nature of his father’s work. Both artists are represented in public and private collections across the country. David still creates paintings that are shown in galleries in Boston, New York, and beyond.