Sidney Fischman, a young art student was the only Jew to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize this year. He received the annual $1,800 scholarship awarded to the “art student in America who shall be certified as the most promising and deserving by the National Academy of Design…”
Fischman, who lives with his parents in the Bronx, has exibited his canvasses at the National Academy of Design and at the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. He expects to continue his studies in art schools in Paris and other European cities.
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