Born near Kiev, Russia, Israel Abramofsky was a city-landscape painter and one of his favorite subjects was villages in Breton, France.

He served in a Siberian prison camp, and in 1929 went to Toledo, Ohio to join two brothers. He worked as a welder and studied art in the evening. He was in Paris several times between 1914 and 1925 and studied at the Academie Julian with J.P. Laurens and Lucien Simon.

In 1919, he lived in Washington DC and from 1947 to 1959 was in Toledo, Ohio. Among his exhibition venues were the Society of Independent Artists, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Jewish Museum.

Source: Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"