Moses Soyer

original lithograph

1952

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1952 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1954 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph was printed in 1950 for the "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 19...

Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1954 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1954 Spr...

Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter. Soyer was born in Borisoglebsk, Russian Empire, in 1899. His father was a Hebrew scholar, writer and teacher. His family emigrated to the United States in 1912. Two of Soyer's brothers, Raphael (his identical twin) and Isaac were also painters. Soyer's wife, Ida, was a dancer, and dancers are a recurring subject in his paintings. Soyer studied art in New York, first at Cooper Union and later at the Ferrer Art School, where he studied under the Ashcan painters Robert Henri and George Bellows. He had his first solo exhibition in 1926 and began teaching art the following year at the Contemporary Art School and The New School. He died in the Chelsea Hotel in New York while painting dancer and choreographer Phoebe Neville. He was included in the show “American Modernism – Paintings from the Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Kauffman Collection,” along with 30 leading masters of American modernism, which captured the essence of a revolutionary era...

Moses Soyer (New York/Russia, 1899-1974) Untitled (dancers), mid-20th century Lithograph Sight: 16 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. Framed: 26 x 23 1/2 x 1 in. Edition 76 of 100 Numbered lower left...

Moses Soyer, American (1899 - 1974) - Female Nude. Medium: Graphite Drawing on Paper, signed in pencil lower right, Size: 29.25 x 19.75 in. (74.3 x 50.17 cm)

Soyer, Raphael. SIXTEEN ETCHINGS. Published by Associated American Artists, NY, 1965. From the Deluxe suite of 25 on Japan paper, this copy number 24/25. (There were a further 60 p...