Xavier Basil Radoff(1894 – 1986) - Russian painter. 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ...

Xavier Basil Radoff (Charles Radoff) was born in March 15, 1894 in Izmail, Bessarabia, Russia (present-day Ukraine). Born to Basil Radoff and Marta Eudokia-Radoff. He was the second son and had three sisters. His family was poor and all the family finances went toward the eldest son’s education. His father died when he was very young. His mother remarried but he was never close with his step-father. Izmail or Ismail (Ukrainian: ; Russian: ; Romanian: Ismail), is a town in south-western Ukraine, located near Danube delta in Odessa Oblast (province). ... 1927 map of Bessarabia from Charles Upson Clarks book Bessarabia or Bessarabiya (Basarabia in Romanian, Besarabya in Turkish) was the name by which the Imperial Russia designated the eastern part of the principality of Moldavia ceded by the Ottoman Empire to Russia in the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish...

The area he grew up in was diverse in it’s peoples and cultures. Radoff attained a second grade education only. He then had to start working to help support the family. He was raised in the Russian Orthodox Church. At an early age, he witnessed his mother from time to time hiding Jewish families in their cellar to save them from relocation by soldiers. The Russian Orthodox Church (also known as the Orthodox Catholic Church of Russia) (Русская Православная церковь) is that body of Christians who are united under the Patriarch of Moscow, who in turn is in communion with the other patriarchs and primates of the Eastern Orthodox Church. ...

At the age of 18, Radoff emigrated to the United States arriving at Ellis Island December 5, 1912. The government workers at Ellis Island gave him the anglsied name “Charles” which he used the rest of his life. Ellis Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, was at one time the main immigration port for immigrants entering the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ...

Radoff lived in New York City working any job he could find. He eventually found employment at a posh club for the rich as a member of the wait staff. Here he was taught tennis and learned to play rather well. He would sketch in pencil some of the sights in New York. These drawings are lost.

Radoff served in the United States Army Calvary during World War I. The U.S._Army_Air_Service#Air_Service_of_the_AEF became aware of Radoff’s skills as an artist. His duties included serving as an aerial observer with the Air Corps. While airborne, he would hand draw maps of enemy positions for use in planning by the command staff. Combatants Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Romania, Belgium, British Empire, United States, Italy, and others Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead: 5 million Civilian deaths: 3 million Total of dead: 8 million Military dead: 4 million Civilian deaths: 3 million Total dead: 7 million The First... The United States Army Air Service was a forerunner of the United States Air Force. ...

Radoff loved France and would revisit in 1921 where he met and later married Camille Alice Richard. The couple stayed in France as shop owners until 1932. The Radoff’s emigrated to the United States for fear of increasing tensions in Europe. They toured the entire US eventually settling in Los Angeles. Their only child, Vivian Renee Radoff, was born in Los Angeles in 1933.

Radoff continually dabbled with sketching over the years. He didn’t take it up as a vocation until the late 1950’s. He was living in Southern California and opened an Art Gallery in the San Fernando Valley. He had galleries in Van Nuys, Corona del Mar and Reseda. He would show his work at the Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach in the mid-1960’s. Van Nuys is a district within the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. ... Corona del Mar (Spanish, Crown of the Sea) is a neighborhood in Newport Beach, California. ... Reseda refers to the following: The plant genus Reseda; see Mignonette The Los Angeles, California suburb named after the plant; see Reseda, Los Angeles, California This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Laguna Beach is the name of several places in the United States, and a TV show: Laguna Beach in California Laguna Beach in Florida Laguna Beach the reality soap opera on MTV This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same...

Radoff mostly painted seascapes and florals. He tried some neo-impressionist styles also. He was an admirer of Marc Chagall’s work. Marc Chagall as photographed in 1941 by Carl Van Vechten. ...

Radoff continued to paint until he had a stroke in 1985.

Selected Works

Autumn Colors, 1970 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...

Mother Russia, 1968 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

Quiet Dusk, 1968 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...