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1935 Brooklyn, New York - 2024 Manhattan, New York. Known for: Minimal expressionist painting of New York skyline, collage-like painting.
Robert Moskowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1935. When he was thirteen he was abandoned by his father, who had managed a dry-cleaning business in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. His... Read full biography
Robert Moskowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1935. When he was thirteen he was abandoned by his father, who had managed a dry-cleaning business in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. His mother took periodic work as a nurse in Florida to support him and his two sisters. After high school he... Read full biography
Robert Moskowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1935. When he was thirteen he was abandoned by his father, who had managed a dry-cleaning business in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. His mother took periodic work as a nurse in Florida to support him and his two sisters. After high school he studied engineering drafting and got a job as a technical illustrator. He started going to museums; a friend encouraged him to enroll in graphic-design courses at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn,... Read full biography
Robert Moskowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1935. When he was thirteen he was abandoned by his father, who had managed a dry-cleaning business in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. His mother took periodic work as a nurse in Florida to support him and his two sisters. After high school he studied engineering drafting and got a job as a technical illustrator. He started going to museums; a friend encouraged him to enroll in graphic-design courses at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he ended up in an advanced painting class with Adolph Gottlieb and Bradley Walker Tomlin. After graduating from Pratt, he went to spend a year painting passionate, elegant abstract canvases in an artists' colony outside London. But he became... Read full biography
Robert Moskowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1935. When he was thirteen he was abandoned by his father, who had managed a dry-cleaning business in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. His mother took periodic work as a nurse in Florida to support him and his two sisters. After high school he studied engineering drafting and got a job as a technical illustrator. He started going to museums; a friend encouraged him to enroll in graphic-design courses at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he ended up in an advanced painting class with Adolph Gottlieb and Bradley Walker Tomlin. After graduating from Pratt, he went to spend a year painting passionate, elegant abstract canvases in an artists' colony outside London. But he became interested in Duchamp, Neo-Dadaism and found imagery. And until he met Hermine and fell in love, he went through a period o... Read full biography
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Keywords (23)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Botanics, Plant Life
Art School
- •Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •UBS-Paine Webber Collection
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art