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Robert Moskowitz

SELECTED WORKS
Untitled from Atlas
2001
Etching with aquatint
Image/plate size: 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches (30.2 x 22.5 cm)
Paper size: 19 1/2 x 14 1/8 inches (49.5 x 35.9 cm)
Edition of 20
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left
(Inventory #27163)
Untitled, from Atlas
2001
Etching with aquatint

Image size: 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches
(30.2 x 22.5 cm)
Paper size: 19 1/2 x 14 1/8 inches
(49.5 x 35.9 cm)
Edition of 20
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left
(Inventory #27161)

Eddystone
2001
Aquatint and softground etching

Image size: 9 x 3 3/8 inches (22.9 x 8.6 cm)
Plate size: 11 6/8 x 8 7/8 inches (29.8 x 22.5 cm)
Paper size: 19 3/8 x 14 3/8 inches (49.2 x 36.5cm)
Edition of 20
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left
(Inventory #27157)

Untitled
2009
Etching with aquatint

Image size:  7 7/8 x 2 5/8 inches  (20 x 6.7 cm)
Paper size:  19 1/2 x 14 inches  (49.5 x 35.6 cm)
Edition of 20
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left on each sheet
(Inventory #27167)

Untitled
2009
Etching with aquatint

Image size:  7 7/8 x 2 5/8 inches  (20 x 6.7 cm)
Paper size:  19 1/2 x 14 inches  (49.5 x 35.6 cm)
Edition of 20
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left on each sheet
(Inventory #27165)

Untitled
2009
Etching with aquatint

Image size:  7 7/8 x 2 5/8 inches  (20 x 6.7 cm)
Paper size:  19 1/2 x 14 inches  (49.5 x 35.6 cm)
Edition of 20
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left on each sheet
(Inventory #27166)

Untitled
2009
Etching with aquatint

Image size:  7 7/8 x 2 5/8 inches  (20 x 6.7 cm)
Paper size:  19 1/2 x 14 inches  (49.5 x 35.6 cm)
Edition of 20
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left on each sheet
(Inventory #27164)

Additional Information
Robert Moskowitz (1935-March 24, 2024) has been described as a significant link between the Abstract Expressionists of the New York School and New Image painters of the 1970s.
“Bob’s style is consistent in conversations as it is in the work; a variety of reflective statements on his personal life; an internal balancing, the method of a sensitive man whose gift is to adapt statements specifically about himself in terms that relate to a larger means.” —Michael Hurson
Moskowitz first gained recognition exhibiting at the Leo Castelli Gallery in the early 1960s. His inclusion in the historic exhibition Art of The Assemblage at The Museum of Modern Art in 1961, signaled his arrival into the contemporary discourse of the time. His work was featured in New Image Painting at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1978, where together with works by Jennifer Bartlett, Michael Hurson, Neil Jenney, and Susan Rothenberg, Moskowitz’s pared-down often silhouetted images marked a resurgence of figurative painting in the late 1970s.
Awards include John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (‘67), New York State Council on the Arts Grant (‘73), National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist’s Fellowship (‘75). Teaching positions include Maryland Insitute College of Art, Baltimore (‘64-’73), School of Visual Arts, New York (‘69-71), Yale Norfolk Summer School (‘67,’69). Visiting Artist appointments include Art Institute of Chicago (‘74), Ohio State University (‘75). In 2001, Moskowitz was Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.
In 1989, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden mounted a major retrospective of the artist’s work, which traveled to the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Over the course of his six-decade career, Moskowitz focused on a variety of images, from well-known art historical sources to more commonplace things like birds, icebergs, and buildings, all executed against stark, monochromatic backgrounds.  Using symbolism, metaphor, and repetition, the artist’s images offer arresting images of timelessness—a teetering balance between recognition and abstraction.

Reduce, Repeat, Reuse

June 13, 2015
- July 24, 2015

Featuring works by Peter Downsbrough, Ellsworth Kelly, and Robert Moskowitz

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2015

March 3, 2015
- March 8, 2015

 

 

Moving Patterns

June 16, 2010
- August 3, 2010

Featuring works by Jenny Holzer, Ellsworth Kelly, Sherrie Levine, Charles LeDray, Robert Moskowitz, Liliana Porter, Kiki Smith,  and Shellburne Thurber

Holding Patterns

May 8, 2010
- June 15, 2010

Featuring works by Jenny Holzer, Matthew Day Jackson, Sherrie Levine, Robert Moskowitz, Eleanor Antin, Lorna Simpson, and Kiki Smith

Poetic Substance

December 5, 1987
- January 6, 1988

Featuring works by Glenn Goldberg, Lois Lane, Robert Moskowitz, Ed Ruscha, Andrew Spence, and Robert Therrien

The Presence of Nature

October 10, 1987
- November 4, 1987

Featuring works by Jake Berthot, Cora Cohen, Willem De Kooning, Arthur Dove, Joel Fisher, Marsden Hartley, Jene Highstein, Bill Jensen, Harry Kramer, Lee Krasner, Jihn Marin, Joan Mitchell, Robert Moskowitz, Jackson Pollock, Milton Resnick, Susan Rothenberg, Robert Therrien, and John Walker

Group Drawing Show

November 29, 1986
- January 7, 1987

Featuring works by Victoria Faust, Glenn Goldberg, Jene Highstein, Roni Horn, Michael Kessler, Win Knowlton, Bill Komoski, Sherrie Levine, Robert Moskowitz, Elizabeth Murray, John Newman, Susan Rothenberg, Carole Seborovski, Judith Shea, Sean Scully, Donald Sultan, Robert Therrien, David True, John Walker, Robin Winters, and Terry Winters

Recent Acquisitions

July 12, 1986
- July 30, 1986

Featuring works by Gregory Amenoff, Alexander Calder, Jim Dine, Carroll Dunham, David Hockney, Chuck Holtzman, Todd McKie, Mel Kendrick, Michael Kessler, Robert Moskowitz, Elizabeth Murray, Lucas Samaras, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Donald Sultan, and John Walker

Off the Press

July 1, 1984
- August 1, 1984

Featuring works by Greg Amenoff, Jennifer Bartlett, Georg Baselitz, Bosman, Louisa Chase, Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Jim Dine, Bryan Hunt, Yvonne Jaquette, Robert Longo, Robert Moskowitz, Elizabeth Murray, Dorothea Rockburne, and Susan Rothenberg