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Hailing from an affluent Philadelphia family, George Biddle earned a law degree from Harvard University in 1911 before becoming an artist. He studied in Philadelphia, Paris, and Munich; after serving for two years with the United States infantry in World War I, Biddle sought solace on a remote Polynesian island for two years. This experience informed his art for the rest of his career. Biddle returned to the States and eventually became part of the vanguard of artists working in the Social realist tradition. He was instrumental in encouraging his boyhood friend, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to institute the Federal Arts Project for the U.S. Works Progress Administration (WPA), which enabled many American artists and writers to work during the Depression.
Untitled (Cows and Bulls), of 1923, with its faceted forms, compressed space, and jarring use of color, illustrates Biddle's concerns with composition.
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