biography of Ira MOSKOWITZ (1912-2001)

Birth place: Stryj, Poland

Addresses: Santa Fe, NM; Seine, France

Profession: Etcher, lithographer, painter

Studied: ASL.

Exhibited: S. Indp. A., 1934; MMA, 1941; AIC; NAD, 1946; CI, 1946; LOC, 1943, 1945 (prize), 1946; Los Angeles Mus Art, 1945; Albany Inst. Hist. & Art; Phila. Pr. Club; Laguna Beach AA; Springfield (MO) Mus. Art; Mus. FA, Houston (solo); San Antonio Mus. Art (solo); Natural Hist. Mus., NY (solo). Awards: prizes, America in the War" exh., 1943; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1943."

Member: SAGA.

Work: MMA; Mus. New Mexico; Natural Hist. Mus., New York & Cincinnati; Philbrook AC; WMAA; BM; NYPL; Albany Inst. Hist. & Art; Mus. FA, Houston; Carnegie Inst.; LOC.; Mus. Navajo Ceremonial Art, Santa Fe, NM

Comments: Auth.: Pattern and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest," 1949. Selected & edited 4 vols., "Great Drawings of All Time," 1962. Position: ed., Shorewood Publishers, Inc., 1957-.

Sources: WW66; WW47."