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Alfred Rogoway Esther Rogoway

Alfred Rogoway (1899-1990)

"Using scenes from his own inner consciousness, Alfred Rogoway created a world of sensitively distorted figures. His beings are fairy tale creatures and from myths that partake of all the activities of man in a mood which might be termed eternal. A true somnambulist who dreams in paint, finding expression for all the subtleties of his nature on canvasses. He prays, dances, loves and plays in rich vibrant colors and delicate, delineated drawing. Rogoway always wished to create something truly beautiful so that the world would have gained through his expressions of life." (quoted from the essay by Kaya Morgan,

During his final years, Alfred quietly painted in a small studio behind the family house until his death in 1990, while painting. Today, his presence still lives on in permanent collections at the Grosvenor Gallery in London, the Copenhagen National Museum, the American Gallery in Los Angeles, the Universities of Illinois, Arizona, New Mexico and in private collections throughout the world — a testament to his own unique creative expression.

As his dear friend, colleague and playwright once said of him, "He paints as other men must dream, and his visions take him back thousands of years of world subconsciousness. He belongs to no one medium but to all. His is the gentleness of the large man who cannot touch something small for fear of crushing it, yet all subtleties of his nature find expression on canvas." — Henry Miller, 1955.