User:Maureenmurray/Rudolf Baranik

(b. 1920 Lithuania, d. 1998 El Dorado, NM) Rudolf Baranik was a Lithuanian artist, educator, and writer who immigrated to the United States in 1938. He was well known in the art world for his political advocacy, and was one of the first artists to organize protests against the war in Vietnam. Some of his best known works are the Napalm Elegies, a series of 30 antiwar paintings created between 1967 and 1974. His art was inspired by his sense of the gross inequities around the world, and he led virtually every progressive political movement within the New York art world from the 1960s to the mid-1990s. Significant exhibitions and awards include:1981 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts,1982 "Art Couples 1: May Stevens and Rudolf Baranik," P.S. 1, New York, NY, 1966 Peace Tower