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Description
Exhibited
SFMOMA Solo Exhibition, 1947
Carlson Art Projects Collection
30 Surrealist works exhibited
in the 1947 SFMOMA solo exhibitionBorn . Daniel Harris and adopting the name Zev, he studied at the Master's Institute of the Roerich Museum in New York City, the National Academy of Design, and at New York University, where he also taught for two years.
His artistic talents were discovered by Grace McCann Morley, director of SFMA, in the early 1940s, and she invited him to exhibit in the Abstract & Surrealist Art in America exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1944. She also gave him a solo exhibition at the museum In 1947 of his surreal drawings.
While living on the Monterey Coast, he designed the interior of the world-famous Nepenthe restaurant in Big Sur.
Harris changed his name to ZEV, which means 'wolf' in Hebrew when he moved to Europe in 1953. He first went to Paris, then Spain, where he created huge sculptures for a villa in Spain, and then Rome, where he died in 1987.
Solo Exhibitions
San Francisco Museum of Art, 1947
Pinacotheca Gallery (Rose Fried Gallery), New York
Furstenberg Gallery, Paris
Arthur Jeffress Gallery, LondonTry it!
