Signed and Numbered Hand Colored Etching by Ira Moskowitz

Fine Art : Lithograph

 

This is number 22 of 50 signed and dated in the right hand corner by Moskowitz. It is not titled and I could not find another like it to compare it with. The litho measures10 by 12.5 inches and is professionally framed and matted. This is a chance to own one of better artist of our times work at a reasonable price. Many of his lithograph sell for thousands. A Little History Ira Moskowitz was born in Stryj, Galicia, Poland in 1912 and immigrated with his family to America in 1927. He studied painting and print making at the Art Students League in New York City from 1928-31. Moskowitz and his wife would often visit Taos and Santa Fe in New Mexico, and they decided to move there in 1944. After some time spent living in Paris, Moskowitz returned to New York City, where he died in 2001. Moskowitz was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists, and exhibited widely during his lifetime, including at: the Society of Independent Artists (1934); the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1941); the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois; the National Academy of Design (1946); the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (1946); the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. (1943, 1945, 1946); the Los Angeles Museum of Art in California (1945); the Albany Institute of History and Art; the Philadelphia Print Club; the Laguna Beach Artists Association in California; the Springfield Museum of Art in Missouri; the Houston Museum of Fine Art in Texas (solo); the San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas (solo); and the Natural History Museum in New York City (solo). Moskowitz was a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 1943. His work is in major museum collections, including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of New Mexico; the Natural History Museum in New York City and Cincinnati, Ohio; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the New York Public Library; the Albany Institute of History and Art; the Houston Museum of Fine Art in Texas; the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh; the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Navajo Indian Ceremonial Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center; the Frederick Weisman Museum of Art the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. In 1927 Moskowitz became the pupil of Henry Wickey at the Art Students League. Between 1935 and 1938, he traveled to Israel and to Europe where he studied the works of the old masters, an interest derived from his first teacher and one that eventually led to his active collaboration in 1954 on the four-volume series, "Great Drawings of All Time." In 1939, Moskowitz made his first trip to Mexico, and stayed for six months. In 1943 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to New Mexico, where he remained for seven years drawing the Indians and becoming an active member of the Taos-Santa Fe artists group. His book, "Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," appeared in 1949. He is a superb draftsman in the old tradition, drawing with a quick, nervous, but incisive line that is extremely lively and full of movement. His subject matter takes its shape from the life that he sees around him-natural forms, the human figure, landscapes, and people at their daily tasks .

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