Nahum Tschacbasov was born in Russia. He immigrated to America as a young boy and his family settled in Chicago. His career spanning more than 5 decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Mr. Tschacbasov dominated the New York art world from the 1930s to the 1950s, displaying his intricate, symbol-laden works in the halls of art havens like the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum. He painted alongside Mark Rothko in the Dissenters Ten, formed his own fine arts school in Woodstock, and even threw his expertise into the teaching academy of the Art Students League.
Museum Collections: (several)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
- Smithsonian Museum of Art, DC
- Brooklyn Museum of Fine Art, NY
- The Whitney Museum of Art, NYC
- MOMA, NYC