#David Loeb was born in 1953 near New York. Her mother and her twin were both painters. He studied with Gillian Pederson-Krag at Cornell University and with Reed Kay at Boston University. He received a scholarship to Yale in Norfolk, where he worked under Luigi Finkelstein, Wolf Kahn, Philip Guston. Loeb attended graduate school at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he studied with Robert Barnes and Richard Ryan. In 1985 travels to France on a Fulbright scholarship to study Chartres Cathedral and Père Lachaise Cemetery, in collaboration with the painter Jean Hélion. Since then, he divided his time between Paris and New York. In 1993 received an award from the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Loeb taught at the New York Academy of Art Graduate School and at the Parsons School of Design in Paris. He currently lives in Fontainebleau, in France.
