Judaica WEDDING POSTER Moskowitz JEWISH POLISH SHTETL Yiddish BASHEVIS SINGER For Sale

DESCRIPTION : Up for sale is an ORIGINAL Jewish - Judaica - American LITHOGRAPH ART POSTER . An ADVERTISING LITHOGRAPH - POSTER for an ART EXHIBITION which was designed by theJewish - American ART master of POLISH ( Galicia ) descent IRA MOSKOWITZ .The LITHOGRAPHIC ART POSTER was designed and published around 40 years ago for the occasion of an 1979 exhibition by the WEINTRAUB GALLERY in NYC \"IRA MOSKOWITZ - DRAWINGS and ETCHINGS - INCLUDING a SUITE of 24 ETCHINGS for ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER STORY of the BAAL SHEM TOV\" in NYC USA. The poster depicts a typical Bashevis Singer SCENE of a JEWISH WEDDING in a JEWISH POLISH STETL ( SHTETL ) in a style which somewhat resembles similat CHAGALL PIECES. The LITHOGRAPH was printed by MAKOR PRESS. A splendid COLORFUL JEWISH piece of ART. Lithograph-Poster size around 30\" x 21\". Very good condition. ( Pls look at scan for accurate AS ISimages ) The POSTER will be sent rolled in a special protective rigidsealed tube.

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SHIPPING : SHIPP worldwide via registeredairmail is $ 29 . The LITHOGRAPH - POSTER will be sent rolled in a special protective rigidsealed tube. . Handlingaround 5-10 days after payment.

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001)Ira Moskowitz was born in Galicia, Poland in 1912, emigrating with his family to New York in 1927. He enrolled at the Art Student\'s League and studied there from 1928-31. In 1935, he traveled to Paris and then lived until 1937 in what is now Israel. He returned in 1938 to marry artist Anna Barry in New York. The couple soon visited Taos and Santa Fe in New Mexico, returning there for extended periods until in 1944 they moved there permanently and stayed until 1949.During this time, Moskowitz received a Guggenheim fellowship (in 1943). While Moskowitz devoted much of his life to the production of Judaic art, his New Mexico period was especially productive of other work. His New Mexico art consists mostly of \"Regionalist\" subjects depicting both the New Mexico landscape and life within the state\'s three cultures. He especially focused on pueblo life. He and Anna also visited and sketched across the border in Old Mexico. While in the Southwest, Moskowitz flourished as a printmaker, yet continued to produce oils and watercolors as well.After leaving the Southwest, printmaking remained a major part of his life and art. But his focus drastically changed as to subject. Later works of Moskowitz depict religious (Judaic) subjects primarily. These works were well received early on and Moskowitz was content to stay with them the rest of his life.From 1963 until 1966 Moskowitz lived in Paris. He then returned in 1967 to New York City where he made his permanent home (with intermittent sojourns) until he died there in 2001. Shortly before his death, Zaplin-Lampert Gallery of Santa Fe staged a year 2000-01 exhibition of Ira\'s works. *****Moskowitz, Ira (Poland, 1912 - New York City, 1985) Date: c. 1970Medium: Original Hand-Coloured EtchingPublisher: Associated American Artists, New YorkNote: Ira Moskowitz:Born in Poland, Ira Moskowitz came to New York at the age of sixteen. Within a year he received a scholarship to study at the Art Students\' League under such well known instructors as John Sloan and Harry Wickey. Ira Moskowitz\'s first paintings, etchings and lithographs were exhibited in New York in the early 1930\'s. Throughout the 1940\'s Moskowitz lived in the American Southwest and became a prominent member of the Santa Fe Group of Artists. His original prints and paintings of Navajo life and customs gained for him a strong national reputation. Ira Moskowitz returned to live in New York after 1947 and continued to produce remarkable works of art. Today his etchings, lithographs and paintings are included in many major collections in Europe, the United States and Israel. These include the Library of Congress, Washington DC, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Religion and Jewish culture played a vital role in Ira Moskowitz\'s art. Isaac Bashevis Singer once said of Moskowitz; \"Ira has recaptured the religious view of God and the world in his works.\"The Jewish Weddingwas published in New York around 1970 in a signed, limited edition of 100 impressions. From 1967 through 1969 Moskowitz was a frequent visitor to Israel and had several solo exhibitions there at the Haifa Museum of Modern Art. This fine etching, like much of his work from this period, depicts aspects of Israeli life and religion. Every impression was extensively hand coloured by the artist making each etching a unique work of art. The Jewish Weddingwas commissioned by the Associated American Artists of New York in a sole limited edition of 100 impressions. Since its creation in the mid 1930\'s the Associated American Artists commissioned original graphic art from such great masters as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and others. It published etchings and lithographs of no less stature during the 1960\'s and 1970\'s as contributing artists from around the world included Lily Harmon, Jacob Landau, Ira Moskowitz, W. B. Eberhard Eggers, Peter Klitsch, Robert Bero, David Shapiro, Jack Levine, Chaim Koppelman, Joseph Margulies, James Kearns, Gregory Masurovsky, Jack Coughlin and Sidney Chafetz.Provenance: From the collection of Roger Trlak and bearing his inventory number, \'T-793\', on the lower right corner. Roger Trlak (1934-1975) established the commercial art company of Martin-Trlak in Chicago. In 1972 he also opened the RST Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona where he exhibited not only his own large collection of mostly contemporary art but also held important exhibitions of many modern artists. These Included such major American and international printmakers as Joseph Hirsch, Luigi Lucioni, Jacob Landau, Birgit Skiold and Paul Wunderlich. Among Trlak\'s closest friends in the arts community were Raphael Soyer, Ivan Albright and Hans Burkhardt. Contemporary prints and paintings were constantly exhibited at the RST Gallery until it was closed in 1975 due to Trlak\'s untimely death.Edition: Limited edition of one hundred impressions, numbered 14/100./(1912-2001) Polish-AmericanMoskowitz was born in Galicia, Poland in 1912 and emigrated to the USA in 1927. He studied at the Art Student’s League from 1928-31, after which he traveled to Paris and Israel. In 1938, Moskowitz returned to New York, traveling frequently to Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico until finally settling there permanently in 1949. He devoted much of his life and career to producing Judaic art as well as pueblo life, “regionalist” subjects depicting both the New Mexico landscape and life within the state’s mélange of cultures. During his time in New Mexico, Moskowitz flourished as a printmaker which continued to become a major part of his life and art even after leaving the Southwest. Moskowitz had a greatly successful career, earning himself the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1943 and exhibiting throughout his career. 4707a folder 172