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Navajo Trading Post
— Southwest Regionalism, Native American Subject1946
1946
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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, with full margins (1 1/2 to 3 1/8 inches). Pale mat line, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 11 11/16 x 15 1/2 inches (297 x 395 mm); sheet size 16 5/16 x 191/8 inches (414 x 486 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:1946
- Dimensions:Height: 11.69 in (29.7 cm)Width: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Myrtle Beach, SC
- Reference Number:Seller: 998321stDibs: LU532312905132
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