Alphabetical list of artists

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Raphael Bouganim, Israeli, born in Morocco, 1939-1994, active in the United States. Raphael Bouganim was born in Essaouira, Morocco. In 1950, he immigrated to Israel with Youth Aliya and lived on Kibbutz Afikim. At the age of 16, he was sent to study at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. In the mid-1950s, he moved to the United States with his family. At first he lived in New York and then in Philadelphia and Marlborough, Massachusetts. Bouganim painted mainly Jewish subjects in a modernist style. He was influenced by the Paris School, Surrealism and French Cubism. In addition to painting, he worked in synagogue art and designed Jewish ceremonial objects. He did paintings and stained glass work for synagogues in the United States, among them Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Education

1955-57 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem.
1958-60 Art Students League, New York City, USA
1959-63 Gratz Jewish College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1965 University of Scranton, Pennsylvania,. USA

Teaching

1963-65 Beth Sholom Congregation, Melrose park, Pennsylvania, USA, Artist-in-residence, art teacher