Fox, C. J.

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Biography

C.J. Fox is a pseudonym used by Leo Fox, incorporator of Charles J. Fox, Inc. [exposed and dissolved? ca. 1978], painters Irving.Resnikoff and others as a signature on portraits made from photographs of prominent government, medical and business persons. The pseudonymous business continues 2008-> as: CJFox Portraits. Use for all portraits bearing this signature, regardless of date or collaborator responsible for the work. Related personal names: Resnikoff, Irving, 1897-1988, Fox, Leo. Related corporate names: Charles J. Fox, Inc.; CJFox Portraits. The name was invented by Leo Fox ca. 1940, and incorporated as a tax avoidance scheme. Subjects include legislators, cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, prominent physicians and businessmen, all painted from photographs. The original Fox was Irving Resnikoff, who had studied art at the Imperial Art Academy in St. Petersburg, and immigrated to the United States in 1923. Portraits hang in multiple official government collections in Washington, D.C., libraries and medical centers around the United States.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Oil Painting of Dr. Philip Hillkowitz, circa 1940

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Identifier: B002.16.0343.00001

Abstract Dr. Philip Hillkowitz was one of the founders of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) in 1904 and was president of the JCRS for 44 years until his death in 1948. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver. In 1954 the institution changed its mission to...

Dates: circa 1940

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B002, Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records / Religious, Material Culture Objects, and Art / Container 343