Items Similar to
Navajo Country
— Southwest Regionalism, Native American Subject
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 6
Ira Moskowitz
Navajo Country
— Southwest Regionalism, Native American Subject1945
1945
$1,200
£914.42
€1,054.58
CA$1,704.36
A$1,831.24
CHF 982.46
MX$21,574.10
About the Item
Ira Moskowitz, 'Navajo Reservation Landscape', lithograph, 1945, edition c. 30. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed and dated in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (1 3/8 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 12 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (324 x 400 mm); sheet size: 15 1/2 x 19 inches (394 x 482 mm).
Collection: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ira Moskowitz was born in Galicia in 1912 and emigrated with his family to New York in 1927. He enrolled at the Art Students League, where he studied from 1928 to 1931. In 1935, Moskowitz traveled to Paris and subsequently lived in what is now Israel until 1937. He returned to the United States in 1938 to marry fellow artist Anna Barry in New York.
Soon after, the couple began traveling to Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico, returning for extended periods until 1944, when they settled there permanently. They remained in New Mexico until 1949, a particularly productive phase in Moskowitz’s career during which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Deeply influenced by the landscape and cultural complexity of the region, his work engaged the interwoven traditions of the American Southwest, Native American communities, and Mexican culture. He focused especially on Pueblo and Navajo communities, developing a substantial body of work depicting Indigenous cultural life. Moskowitz and Barry also traveled extensively in Old Mexico, where they sketched and gathered material that further informed their work. While in the Southwest, Moskowitz flourished as a printmaker, alongside continued work in oil and watercolor.
More than one hundred of Moskowitz’s works depicting Indigenous ceremonial traditions were used to illustrate American Indian Ceremonial Dances by John Collier (Crown Publishers, New York, 1972), underscoring the historical and cultural significance of this aspect of his production.
After leaving the Southwest, printmaking remained central to Moskowitz’s practice, though his subject matter shifted toward Jewish religious life and customs. These works were well received and became a sustained focus for the remainder of his career. From 1963 to 1966, Moskowitz lived in Paris before returning to New York City in 1967, where he remained until his death in 2001.
Shortly before his death, the Zaplin-Lampert Gallery in Santa Fe presented a retrospective exhibition of Moskowitz’s work (December 2000–January 2001). Earlier one-person exhibitions included the 8th Street Playhouse, New York (1934), the Houston Museum (1941), and the San Antonio Museum (1941). His work was also included in exhibitions at the Art Students League, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Print Club, the College Art Association, and the International Exhibition of Graphic Arts at the Museum of Modern Art (1955).
Moskowitz’s lithographs are represented in the permanent collections of the Albany Institute of History and Art, the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), the Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Library of Congress, the McNay Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
- Creator:Ira Moskowitz (1912, American)
- Creation Year:1945
- Dimensions:Height: 12.75 in (32.39 cm)Width: 15.75 in (40.01 cm)
- Medium:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Myrtle Beach, SC
- Reference Number:Seller: 1039581stDibs: LU532312728032
About the Seller
5.0
Recognized Seller
These prestigious sellers are industry leaders and represent the highest echelon for item quality and design.
Platinum Seller
Premium sellers with a 4.7+ rating and 24-hour response times
Established in 1995
1stDibs seller since 2016
336 sales on 1stDibs
Typical response time: 1 hour
Associations
International Fine Print Dealers Association
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Shipping from: Myrtle Beach, SC
- Return Policy
More From This Seller
View All
Navajo Trading Post
— Southwest Regionalism, Native American Subject
By Ira Moskowitz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ira Moskowitz, 'Navajo Trading Post', lithograph, 1946, edition 30, Czestochowski 161. Signed and dated in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Navajo Horse Race
— Southwest Regionalism, Native American Subject
By Ira Moskowitz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ira Moskowitz, 'Navajo Horse Race', lithograph, 1946, edition 30, Czestochowski 204. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed and dated in the stone, lower le...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Navajo Courtship Dance
— Southwest Regionalism, Native American Subject
By Ira Moskowitz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ira Moskowitz, 'Navajo Courtship Dance (Squaw Dance)', lithograph, 1946, edition 30, Czestochowski 161. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed and dated in the stone, lower left. A fine...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Navajo Medicine Ceremony of the Night Chant
— Native American Subject
By Ira Moskowitz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ira Moskowitz, 'The Three Gods of Healing (Navajo Medicine Ceremony of the Night Chant)', lithograph, 1945, edition 30, Czestochowski 148. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed and dat...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Taos - Relic of the Insurrection of 1845
— Native American Subject
By Ira Moskowitz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ira Moskowitz, 'Relic of the Insurrection of 1845' also 'Taos Pueblo with Ruin)', lithograph, 1944, edition 30, Czestochowski 121. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed and dated in th...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Old Cedars
– Early New Mexico Landscape, Southwest Regionalism
By George Elbert Burr
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
George Elbert Burr, 'Old Cedars – New Mexico', etching, 1920, edition 40, Seeber 218. Signed and annotated '(c) George Elbert Burr Del. et Imp.' in pencil. ...
Category
1920s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
You May Also Like
Halfway to Lamey, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Halfway to Lamey, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 18 x 22 inches, Siz...
Category
1970s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wild West II - large scale photograph of iconic Navajo Americana landscape
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph from a series of photographic observances of iconic Wild West red desert Navajo landscape in Monument Valley, Arizona
Wild West II by Frank Schott
48 x 71 i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Archival Ink
Wild Horses, Arizona, Early 20th Century Western Landscape, Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Wild Horses, Arizona, 1937
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right, titled verso
15 x 20 inches
18 x 24 inches framed
Frank Nelso...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Red Cliffs
Hogan, Arizona, Early 20th Century Western Mountainous Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Red Cliffs and Hogan, Arizona, 1937
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right
14.5 x 19 inches
18.5 x 24 inches framed
Frank Nelso...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Gene Kloss Original Pencil Signed Etching. Navajo Canyon Cliffs
By Gene Kloss
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Etching and drypoint on paper by famous Taos Artist Gene Kloss (1903-1996).
Title: Navajo Canyon Cliffs. Unframed and un-matted. Kloss #563
Pencil titled lower left. Pencil signed lo...
Category
Late 20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Mountain Scene
By Ira Moskowitz
Located in New York, NY
Ira Moskowitz (1912-1985), [Mountain Scene], 1943, lithograph, signed in pencil lower right, numbered lower left (27/50) [also signed and dated 1943 in ...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
More Ways To Browse
John Collier
Justine Smith
Lahaina Maui
Leo Kuschel
Margaret Macdonald
Nelson Dawson
Nolli Map Rome
Nolli Map
Nolli Rome
Otto Bacher Etchings
Petra Jordan
Robert Daughters Serigraph
Sally England
Thomas Mcknight Signed
United Airlines Prints
Vintage Chamonix Mont Blanc Poster
Vintage Poster Colorado
Vintage Ski Posters Chamonix