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Lennart Anderson (American, 1928-2015) portrait of Ruben Eshkanian oil on canvas unsigned. Lennart Anderson studied at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cranbrook Academy, and at the Art Students League under Edwin Dickinson. He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and is an Associate of the American Academy of Design. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Tiffany Foundation Grant, and the Rome Prize. He has had solo exhibitions at many galleries. He was an art instructor for many years in the New York area, having taught at Yale, Columbia and Princeton Universities, at Pratt Institute, Skowhegan School, Art Students League, and the New York Studio School. He was also a Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College. Ruben Eshkanian served for many years as Chairman of the Fibers Department at the Philadelphia College of Art, was a visiting artist at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and in 1972 received the Outstanding Educator Award.  Ruben's textile works were featured in many exhibitions between 1957-85 and are part of the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art.  He hand-dyed the intensely colored yarns used in his large-scale, labor-intensive weavings, whose compositions of stripes show influences from Nepalese and Latin American textiles.  His professional life in textile design included working with Russel Wright, Jack Lenor Larsen, Knoll, Thaibok, and Cohama Fabrics.  His designs were reviewed in the New Yorker and the New York Times. As part of various government-sponsored programs, between 1957-67 he traveled extensively in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America as a Specialist Advisor in arts and crafts design training and product development.  His friends and colleagues included artists Lennart Anderson, Eldridge Arnold, Tracy Heneberger and Susan Mayr, William Daley, Toshiko Takeaezu, and Marvin Reichle, designer Robert Gersin, and architect Eliel Saarinen.  His brother was the painter and collector Richard Eshkanian. Provenance: From the estate of Ruben Eshkanian. 8 1/2"H x 6 3/4"W (sight), 15"H x 13"W (frame)