Art Institute of Chicago, AIC
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603-6110
Chicago, IL 60603-6110
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Museums page for Boris Margo ((1902 - 1995)), known for Fantasy and surreal printmaking and painting. Showing 14 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1902 Wolotschisk, Ukraine - 1995 Hyannis, Massachusetts. Known for: Fantasy and surreal printmaking and painting.
Boris Margo was born in 1902, in Volochisk; a Ukrainian river town on the border of what was then Austria and Russia. Margo received his formal art training at the Polytechnik of Art in Odessa and... Read full biography
Boris Margo was born in 1902, in Volochisk; a Ukrainian river town on the border of what was then Austria and Russia. Margo received his formal art training at the Polytechnik of Art in Odessa and through various study grants that allowed him to study at Futemas (workshop for the art of the future)... Read full biography
Boris Margo was born in 1902, in Volochisk; a Ukrainian river town on the border of what was then Austria and Russia. Margo received his formal art training at the Polytechnik of Art in Odessa and through various study grants that allowed him to study at Futemas (workshop for the art of the future) in Moscow, and with avant-garde Cubist-Surrealist painter Pavel Filinov. After earning his certificate from the Polytechnik in 1928, he received a government permit to study abroad. He lived briefly... Read full biography
Boris Margo was born in 1902, in Volochisk; a Ukrainian river town on the border of what was then Austria and Russia. Margo received his formal art training at the Polytechnik of Art in Odessa and through various study grants that allowed him to study at Futemas (workshop for the art of the future) in Moscow, and with avant-garde Cubist-Surrealist painter Pavel Filinov. After earning his certificate from the Polytechnik in 1928, he received a government permit to study abroad. He lived briefly in Montreal, Canada and in 1930 he settled permanently in the United States. Once in the United States, Margo worked predominantly in New York City and spent his summers with the avant-garde community in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Margo's style of... Read full biography
Boris Margo was born in 1902, in Volochisk; a Ukrainian river town on the border of what was then Austria and Russia. Margo received his formal art training at the Polytechnik of Art in Odessa and through various study grants that allowed him to study at Futemas (workshop for the art of the future) in Moscow, and with avant-garde Cubist-Surrealist painter Pavel Filinov. After earning his certificate from the Polytechnik in 1928, he received a government permit to study abroad. He lived briefly in Montreal, Canada and in 1930 he settled permanently in the United States. Once in the United States, Margo worked predominantly in New York City and spent his summers with the avant-garde community in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Margo's style of representation ranges from Surrealism in the 1930s; through abstraction imbued with biomorphic imagery in the 1940s; and finally, to luminous ca... Read full biography
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Museums & Collections (14)
All MuseumsCenter for the Arts, Inc.
3001 Riverside Park Drive
Vero Beach, FL 32693Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
829 Riverside Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32204Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
The University of Georgia
90 Carlton Street
Athens, GA 30602-6719Neuberger Museum of Art
Suny, Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400Sheldon Museum of Art
12th &Amp; R Streets
Lincoln, NE 68588-0300Smith College Museum of Art
20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
5401 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354University of Wyoming Art Museum
Centennial Complex
2111 Willett Drive
Laramie, WY 82071Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNCG
U of North Carolina, Spring Garden At Tate Street
Po Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College
Beloit College
700 College Street
Beloit, WI 53511-5595