Biography:

Samuel Himmelfarb was born 1906 in Russia (Latvia.) His early years were spent in Milwaukee, WI. After studying in Milwaukee art schools (Wisconsin School of Fine Arts) (StateTeachers College) and Madison (University of Wisconsin 1924), he went to New York and studied at the National Academy of Design and Art Students League.

He painted in New York and also worked for architectural firms there. He returned briefly to Milwaukee and taught and painted for the WPA.

In 1937 Sam began a design firm in Chicago, while continuing his studio work as a painter.

Himmelfarb's painting career began in the 1920s with realist figure paintings in a dark palette, developing through the years into figurative abstraction in a high key, until his death in 1976.