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Sidney Riesenberg was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1885. Riesenberg was a well known illustrator, but also a talented landscape artist. Receiving his formal education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Riesenberg won several "Purchase Prize" awards. In the early 1900s, Riesenberg moved to Yonkers, New York to pursue his career and went to work for Harper's, Scribner's, Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post magazines. He would, later that decade, make at least two trips to the Western United States. Here he perfected his techniques with western subjects to produced illustrations for such period books as: "With Whip and Spur” and "Pioneers All." Riesenberg is also well known for his iconic images he created for recruiting posters for the United States Marine Corps Recruiting and Liberty Loan Campaigns during WWI. In the decade before the Second World War, Riesenberg exhibited his works at the Allied Artists of America, the National Academy of Design, The New York Watercolor Club, the Rockport Art Association and The Yonkers Art Association. Impressionist influences are apparent in much of Riesenberg’s work. Like many of the impressionists, Riesenberg practiced outdoor or “plein-air” painting. He died, presumably in New York, in 1971. Contact
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