Archie Rand

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Archie Rand is a painter, muralist, graphic artist, and illustrator. He was chair of the visual arts department at Columbia University and is a professor of art at Brooklyn College. Among Rand’s honors is a 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship. The Chapter Paintings series illustrates the fifty-four divisions of the Hebrew Bible. This photo is from an installation put on in 1996.