Joseph Raffael

Joseph Raffael (born February 22, 1933 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American contemporary realist painter.

His paintings are almost all presented on a very large scale. Most of his paintings are watercolors.

EDUCATION

1953-54 Attended Cooper Union, New York

1954 Summer Fellowship Yale-Norfolk School

1954-56 Attended Yale School of Fine Arts, BFA, studied with Josef Albers

1958-59 Fulbright Fellowship to Florence and Rome

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1966 University of California, Davis

1967-69 School of Visual Arts, New York

1969 University of California, Berkeley, Summer

1969-74 California State University at Sacramento

He lives with his wife, Lannis Raffael in the south of France.

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