Seymour Remenick (1923 – December 15, 1999) was a Philadelphia-based artist and teacher, mostly known for landscapes, but who also painted a variety of other subjects.^[1]

Remenick studied at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, 1940-1942; the Hans Hofmann School in New York City, 1946-1948; and the Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia.^[2] He later taught at PAFA from 1977 to 1996.^[2]

Remenick's work was exhibited at a number of venues, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art,^[3] the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,^[4] the Philadelphia School of Painting,^[5] the Terenchin^[6] and the Davis Galleries.^[7] His paintings have also been auctioned at Christie's, New York.^[8] In 2010, the Lancaster Museum of Art held a posthumous exhibition of his works.^[9] His paintings were cataloged by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.^[10]

Among the awards he received were a 1955 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, the 1960 Altman Landscape Prize from the National Academy of Design (NAD),^[11] and a 1960 Hallmark Purchase Award.^[12] NAD elected Remenick an associate member in 1980, and an academician in 1982.^[13] As a teacher at PAFA, he served as mentor to Giovanni Casadei,^[14] Robert Dye^[15] and others.^[16]

Education and personal life

Remenick was born in 1923 in Detroit, Michigan, and died in 1999 in Philadelphia.^[2] He married Diane K. Thommen (1931–2014) in 1950, and they had two children, Richard and Catherine.^[17]