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name: Toney
vorname: Anthony
gnd-repräsentation: 1073466930
biografische angaben: Cezanne-influenced artist whose abstracted images often dealt with political themes. Trained at Syracuse University and the Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he had his first one-man show in New York in 1941 and exhibited on a regular basis at the ACA Galleries there.
In a 1948 review of his show at the Artists Gallery, the New York Times described Toney as "a painter of unusual capability and real scope" whose work offered "a forceful indictment of fascism and war."
Born to a family of Syrian immigrants in Gloversville, N.Y., Toney painted murals there during the Depression under the banner of the federal Works Projects Administration after graduating from Syracuse. He received a university stipend to study in Paris in 1937. Alarmed by the fascist movements sweeping Europe, Toney sneaked across the Pyrenees into Spain and joined the volunteer Abraham Lincoln Brigade fighting against Gen. Francisco Franco's forces in the Spanish Civil War.