Biografie von Lazar RADITZ (1887-1956)

Birth place: Drinsk, Russia.

Death place: Spartanburg, SC

Addresses: Phila., PA, for many years; New York; Bristol, RI; Spartanburg, SC, 1950s

Profession: Portrait painter, teacher

Studied: PAFA, with W.M. Chase, 1904-10; (won Cresson Traveling Scholarshipos, 1907-08); Tarbell.

Exhibited: The Art Club of Phila., 1913 (solo); PAFA Ann., frequently, 1908-45; Pan-P. Expo, San Fran., 1915 (med); NAD, 1918 (prize); AIC, 1925; McClees Galleries, Phila., solos: 1934-35; S. Indp. A., 1942; Ogunquit (Me.) Art Ctr, solos: 1947-48

Member: Phila. Alliance.

Work: PAFA; Am. Philosophical S.; Dropsie Col.; Univ. Pa.; Baugh Inst. Anatomy; Acad. Nat. Sch.; Franklin Inst.; Col. Physicians; Temple Univ.; Free Lib.; Germantown Friends Sch.; Graphic Sketch C., Mercantile Lib., Phila.; Brown Univ.; Yale Univ.; State Capitol, Harrisburg; convent, Cornwalls Heights, Pa.; Rollins Col.; Fla.; Wesleyan College. Raditz's coll. was given to Greenville Mus. A. (S. Carolina) by his widow. The National Portrait Gallery has hundreds of photos of Raditz's portraits, plus his appointment and account books.

Comments: Prominent portraitist. He portrayed such notables as Rockefeller, DuPont, Madame Chiang-Kai-Shek, and many philanthropists, doctors and judges. Teaching positions: Graphic Sketch C., Phila.; Spartanburg, SC, 1950s. His daughter Violetta C. Raditz was also an artist (see entry).

Sources: WW40; Falk, Exh. Record Series; add'l info. courtesy of his grandson, Jonathan Flaccus, Putney, VT.