Peter Krasnow

American, (1886–1979)

Peter Krasnow was born Feivish Reisberg in 1886 in Novohrad-Volynskyi, Russian Empire. He emigrated to the US in 1907 and in graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. Krasnow was a modernist and colorist artist known for his abstract wood sculptures and architectonic hard-edge paintings and drawings which were often based on Hebrew calligraphy and other subjects related to his Jewish heritage. Krasnow lived in Los Angeles for most of his life.