Wedding Bouquet by Ira Moskowitz

Wedding Bouquet by Ira Moskowitz is bursting with colors of reds, greens, blues ,yellows and white. A larger than life vase overflowing with flowers fills most of the image surface with various images of the wedding couple. At the top of the bouquet they are taking their vows then on the right we see them kissing and then towards the bottom right looking content. A fiddle player can be seen peeking out from the bottom left of the vase. A limited edition Artists Proof ( A. P. ) lithograph signed in pencil by the artist and in good condition.

Polish/American artist Ira Mosokowitz ( 1912-2001 ) emigrated  to New York City in 1927 at the age of sixteen. He studied at the Art Students League under John Sloan and Harry Wickey and by the 1930’s had exhibitions of his paintings, lithographs and etchings in the great city. He moved to the Southwest and joined the Santa Fe Group of Artists and gained a national reputation for his portrayal of the Navajo peoples life and customs. Moskowitz returned to live in New York after 1947  and made many trips to Israel. Thereafter religion and Jewish culture played a vital role in his art. Isaac Bashevis Singer once said of Moskowitz; “Ira has recaptured the religious view of God and the world in his works.” His etchings, lithographs and paintings are included in many major collections in Europe, the United States and Israel. These include the Library of Congress, Washington DC, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Israel,  the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Texas, and the Witte Memorial Museum San Antonio Texas.