MARGARET LOWENGRUND 1902-1957 Original Mid-Century SIGNED Ltd Ed Litho PRATT

Description: Artist: MARGARET LOWENGRUND (American, 1902 - 1957) Title: "Spring Fantasia" - 1952 - Parnis-Livingston, Inc.Medium: Original Lithograph on colored laid paperSignature: Signed in the plateEdition: Limited Edition of 2000, not individually numberedSize: About 12 x 9 inchesPrinter: Artist Equity Funds, Inc.Publisher: Artist Equity AssociationNotes: Part of the Improvisations Portfolio (for the Spring Fantasia Masquerade Ball in New York) published by the Artist Equity Association. The portfolio consisted of advertisements for local New York City businesses where each advertisement was an original lithograph: "Each page was designed by the artist directly on the litho plate, thus making this a collection of original lithographs."This Original Lithograph was produced for an annual art event in the 1950's for local businesses and major corporations largely based in New York. Historically important for corporate archivists, these are extremely rare to locate and are virtually unseen individually. The original lithographs were produced in only one edition, and included just 2,000. These lithographs are perhaps the most unique, rare, important advertising collectibles that exist for businesses and corporations.About the Artist: Margaret Lowengrund, a realist painter and printmaker with exhibition success in the 1930s and 1940s, made her mark on the art world as founder of a well-known New York City print workshop and as Associate Editor of Art Digest magazine. Lowengrund was founder and Director of the Contemporaries Graphic Arts Center, whose name evolved to The Pratt, and later to the Pratt Graphics Center, upon association with Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Though she died in 1957 from cancer at the relatively young age of fifty-five, Lowengrund, an ardent advocate of lithography, is credited with laying the groundwork for, and playing a major role in, the revival of printmaking following World War II, through the 1960s. She established print workshops in both Manhattan and Woodstock, New York, receiving a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Location: Indio, California

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