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Margaret Lowengrund

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American artist

Margaret Lowengrund (b. 1902 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d. 1957 New York) was an American artist and a key figure in the American Print Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. Lowengrund attended at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and also studied with Joseph Pennell in New York. She founded the pioneering the Contemporaries Graphic Art Centre in 1955, originally the Contemporaries gallery founded in 1952 and which later became the Pratt Graphic Art Center upon her death. She is known for her etchings, lithographs, and paintings and was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist.

Lowengrund's work is in the permanent collection of the Delaware Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, The Newark Museum of Art the Spencer Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her work was included in the Office of Emergency Management Art in War exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1942.

Gallery

  • Interior of Brickyard, ca. 1935 Interior of Brickyard, ca. 1935
  • The Elevated, ca.1936 The Elevated, ca.1936

References

  1. "Margaret Lowengrund". Delaware Art Museum. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  2. Greenspun, Joanne (2004). Artists & Prints: Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art. NY: Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 0-87070-125-8. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  3. "Contemporaries gallery records". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  4. "Margaret Lowengrund". Delaware Art Museum. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  5. "The Met Collection – Margaret Lowngrund". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  6. "Margaret Lowengrund". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  7. "Search Our Collection | Newark Museum". www.newarkmuseumart.org. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  8. "Collection search – Margaret Lowengrund". Spencer Museum of Art. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  9. "Collection – Margaret Lowengrund". Library of Congress. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  10. "Lowengrund, Margaret". SFMOMA. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  11. "Art in War". MoMA. Retrieved 18 September 2017.

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