Ibram Lassaw

American sculptor. Moved with his family to New York in 1921. He became a United States citizen in 1928. At 13 he began taking sculpture classes at the Brooklyn Children's Museum. In 1930-31 he attended the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. In 1936 he helped found the American Abstract Artists. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/02/arts/ibram-lassaw-90-a-sculptor-devoted-to-abstract-forms.html http://www.theartstory.org/artist-lassaw-ibram.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibram_Lassaw (accessed 11/30/17 MM) https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/ibram-lassaw