AMERICAN MODERNISM Etching ~ WPA ARTIST ~ Woman 1930s New York PENCIL SIGNED

Description: Original hand signed etching by well regarded American artist Morris Kantor (1896-1974). The print is a beautiful textural work, Kantor has worked over the etched plate in drypoint and roulette to give it an almost velvety quality. It is printed in black ink on fine cream colored France watermarked wove paper with a deckel edge to the top, the plate measures 8 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches, sheet size is 13 x 8 5/8 inches. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower right and aside from a thumbtack hole in the left margin and minor handling grime in the margins, it in excellent condition. Morris Kantor (1896-1974) was a Russian Empire born American painter, etcher and teacher based in the New York City. Born in Minsk on April 15, 1896, Kantor emigrated with his family to the United States at age 10 in 1906. He began formal art studies in 1916 at the Independent School of Art. Later in his career, Kantor himself was an influential teacher at Cooper Union and the Art Students League of New York, he trained many pupils who later became accomplished artists in their own right, including Robert Rauschenberg, Sigmund Abeles, Knox Martin, and Susan Weil. Although he is best known for his paintings executed in a realistic manner, over the course of his life he also spent time working in styles such as Cubism and Futurism, and produced a number of abstract or non-figural works. Like many American artists, in the 1920s he also spent time working in Paris, where his circle included artists Isamu Noguchi, Stuart Davis, and Alexander Calder. The 1930s found him in the position of supervisor of the WPA Federal Art Project's Easel Painting Project in Rockland County, New York. In the 1960s, Kantor exhibited his work at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York. Kantor's work is on display in many prominent museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Hirshhorn Museum.

Price: 185 USD

Location: Spring Hill, Florida

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