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He became interested in drawing at age 7, and spent his high school years taking classes at the nearby Brooklyn Museum.
From 1951-54, he attended Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, along with fellow students R.B. Kitaj and Paul Thek.
Upon graduation from Cooper Union, Raffael received a fellowship to the Yale Summer School of Art and Music in Norfolk, Connecticut.
Through the support of his instructor Bernard Chaet, Raffael was awarded a scholarship to the Yale School of Art, where he studied color and drawing with Josef Albers and received his BFA in 1956.
Instead of pursuing a master's degree, he moved to NY to become a painter, where he worked freelance part-time at Jack Prince Textile Studio, alongside Carolyn Brady, Audrey Flack, and others, while working nights and weekends on his paintings.
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Joseph Raffael was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933. He showed an interest in art in early childhood and, after contracting spinal meningitis when he was ten years old, he spent much of his time restricted to his bed, drawing and studying the landscape and neighborhood from his window. At the request of his father, he was taken out of Catholic school and placed in the local public school— a fortuitous event, as at Midwood High School he was able to join the Art Club. Soon after, he began taking life drawing classes on Sundays at the Brooklyn Museum.
He attended Cooper Union from 1953-54 studying under Sidney Delevante, John Ferren, and Leo Manso. To support himself, he worked as a clerk at the Central Circulation Department at the New York Public Library. In the summer of 1954 he attended the Yale University-Norfolk School of Music and Art on a fellowship. With the encouragement of instructor Bernard Chaet, he went on to study at the Yale School of Fine Arts from 1954-56
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