Arnold Hoffmann (Russian / American, 1866-1966) AWS. Born in 1866 in Odessa, Russia. He later moved to New York and was a member of the American Watercolor Society. Known for portraits, still lifes & Jewish genre paintings, he exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1921, the National Academy of Design, the Audubon Artists, and the Montross Gallery. He worked as a portrait painter, teacher, lecturer, and lithographer in New York, New Jersey, Munich, Moscow, Warsaw, Odessa and the University of Palestine. Hoffmann died in 1966 in New York City.