G.4. Einstein Comtanyjnc. THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1992 Reuben Kadish, 7o, a Sculptor Of Works Evoking the Ancient BY ROBERTA SMITH Reuben Keats, an Ameritan sculp- of ancient Mexico made an tor whose rough-hewn figures and =Ire impression on him, as did the monumental brads often evoked the sculpture of India, which he encoun- art of ancient civilizations, died on Sun- tered while working in$ Asia in the day at New York Hospital In Manhat- Army Artist Unit in the last two years tan. He was 79 jean old and had homes of World War II. In Manhattan and Vernon, N.J. After the war, he moved to New York He died of complications from citron City. In 1948, to support his family, he 1c leukemia, said his son Julian. bought a dairy farm In Vernon, which he operated for 10 years. During this Mr. Kadish, Mho was born in Ch lcagoi period, he stopped painting and eventu- on Jan. 29, 1913, and reared in Los ally took up sculpture. In 1961, he had Angeles, started his career as a paint- his first one-man show in New York er, studying with the West Coast paint- City and began teaching art at Cooper er Loner Felt,Ism while sUll a teen- Union, which he continued up to a few ager. While &standing the Otis MI Insti- months ago. He was represented since tute in Los Angeles, he formed close Ire by the Grace Borgenicht Gallery friendships with Jackson Pollock and In Manhattan. Pbflip Gustort, who would become Ab- His. work is included in the collec- stract Expressionists. Mr. UMW, tions of the Museum of Modem Art, the sculpture, made in either terra cotta or San Francisco Museum of Modem Art Orono, always had a strong Expree- and the Los Angeles County Museum of Monist slant, but his interests in the Art A survey of his sculpture and figure and In social content kept his art drawing was held this past summer at representationAL the State University at Stony Brook, L.I. Cellabored.= en Murat In addition to his son Julian, of Nor- In 1933, Mt Kadish apprenticed ton, Mast, he is survived by his wife, briefly as a t painter to David the former Barbara Weeks; two other Mfaro the Mexican mural- sons, Daniel, of Jersey City, and Kee- ist, and collaborated with nan. of Manhattan; two brothers, Mor- Mr. Gus= on murals in California and ris, of San Francisco, and Frank, at Mexico. While in Mexico, the Assoc Phoenix, and three grandclukiren. 7 541 Broadway, New1 York, Ncw York 1001 111 (21 21 22b.1.414 31 : .1 x , 212! “41 Vifii .