Alexander Liberman (1912-1999), a Russian-American artist, studied architecture, worked as a set designer, and began working as a painter and photographer in the 1930s. In 1941, Liberman began working for Conde Nast magazines, eventually becoming Editorial Director. By the mid-1950s, the artist began exhibiting his own paintings and photographs and by the end of the decade was producing the welded steel sculptures for which he is now recognized. Liberman's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery; De Cordova Museum, Massachusetts; Storm King Art Center; and Tate Gallery, England.
