{{Short description|American artist (1947–2024)}} {{more citations needed|date=May 2023}} <!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Polin-age.jpg|thumb|right|''It Comes With Age'', a typical surrealist painting of Polin's.]] --> '''Stephen Polin''' (1947 - 2024) was an American artist.
He was born to a Russian Jewish family in 1947 and attended the Hun School of Princeton, from which he graduated in 1965.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/towntopicsprince5814unse/page/48/mode/2up/search/polin "Artist Stephen Polin ’65 Returned to The Hun School to Teach Painting..."], The Princeton Packet. Accessed March 6, 2011.</ref> His work is most famous for his surrealist paintings. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Bodley Gallery.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050116070928/http://spxyxx.com/exhibitions/ex-sep1975.htm "Stephen Polin Exhibition."] BODLEY GALLERY 1063 Madison Avenue, N.Y. (80th St.) 10028</ref> His most recent projects have been commissioned by the owners of Smarty Jones and Mercedes-Benz. Stephen Polin uses the signature S.P. Xyxx on work subsequent to 1979. His styles now have incorporated elements of impressionism as well as photorealism. Stephen Polin died on May 1, 2024.
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==See also== *Bodley Gallery *The Hun School
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