Michael Lenson (New Jersey / Russian Federation 1903 - 1971) One charcoal/chalk drawing titled "Spanish Farmer" and one lithograph of an artist in a studio pencil signed and titled in lower margin. Drawing sight size: 21 x 14.5 inches. Lithograph image size: 13.75 x 10 inches. While a student at the National Academy of Design in 1928, he won the coveted 10,000 Chaloner Paris Prize which paid for four years of study in London (Slade School of Art), Paris (Academie des Beaux-Arts) and the Netherlands. While abroad, his works were exhibited in the Autumn and Spring Parisian Salons and other venues.Upon his return to America, Lenson won critical acclaim in one-man shows in Manhattan's Kende, Bonestell and other galleries. When the Great Depression struck, he became director of WPA mural projects for the state of New Jersey. He completed major murals for Newark City Hall, The Verona Sanatorium, Weequahic High School in Newark, New Jersey, and the Post Office in Mount Hope, West Virginia. Who Was Who in American Art calls Lenson "New Jersey's most important muralist." His works are in the collections of the RISD Museum, The Maier Museum of American Art, The Johnson Museum at Cornell, The Newark Museum, The Montclair Art Museum, the Wolfsonian Collection and many others.