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Yitzhak Greenfield, painter, born 1932, Brooklyn, New York His focus is on the heavenly and the terrestrial Jerusalem; on the Hebrew alphabet; and on central themes in Jewish tradition and culture. He deals with the tension between figurative and abstract..

Education

1946 Educational Alliance Art School, New York City, with Abba Ostrowsky, Chaim Gross, and Louis Luzewick.
1948 Thomas Jefferson High School, Brooklyn, New York, Art
1953 Drawing and Drawing Wall Murals,Seminar at Givat Chaviva with P.Pelzig, Y.Simon, and N.Bezem
1960 Printmaking with the artist and printmaker Borin, Venice, Italy
1979-1981 Blackburn Print Workshop, New York City, U.S.A.

Teaching

Art Kibbutz Gal-On and Gat
1961-1963 Arts, regional school at Mateh-Yehuda
Regional  school,  Mateh-Yehuda
Anglican school, Jerusalem
1965–70 Bet Haam, Popular University Outreach Program, Jerusalem
Ruth Youth Wing, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Awards And Prizes

1948 Excellence Award in Art, Jefferson High School, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
1956 Dizengoff Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1956 Association for Jewish Art in Jerusalem, Prize for Jewish Art,
1960 The America-Israel Cultural Fund Scholarship
1983 Award for the painting "Jerusalem", Association for Jewish Culture, Jerusalem