Sam Golden (May 20, 1915 – March 11, 1997) started his paintmaking career in 1936 at Bocour Artist Colors in the tell of his uncle Leonard Bocour. In 1947 he developed Magna paint, the world’s first artiste acrylic paint. He returned from retirement in 1980 to found Golden Artist Colors Inc. based in New Berlin, New York, with his son Mark Golden.
Sam and Leonard began by producing hand field oil colors for artists in Manhattan as the New York School of Painters was coming into its own and New York City was becoming the arts middle of the world. Artists past Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman and Morris Louis were regular visitors at the Bocour shop upon 15th street. They would set up their drawing pads or easels and appeal or paint in the tiny shop. It was Sam’s produce a result directly in the impression of artists and the products he developed in collaboration similar to these painters that became the inspiration for his entire paint-making career. Sam is qualified with the increase of the first player acrylic, the first phthalocyanine performer paints, the first iridescent player colors, the first stable alizarin color in acrylic, the first stable zinc white in acrylic and the progress of water shakeup breaker. Sam Golden died in upstate New York March 11, 1997.
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