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Moishe Smith Prints and Multiples

American, 1929-1993

Moishe Smith was born on January 10, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois. He was a printmaker whose naturalistic realism style interprets the scene for his viewer. His command of the intaglio plate was profound and in print, after print, he displayed his understanding of how to use it to evoke a peaceful landscape or a vibrant city square. He was not a miniaturist, his plates were large and his compositions simple, yet his prints had at the same time a sense of intimacy and a feeling of spaciousness. They were complex without being fussy, allusive without being obscure. His feeling for landscape had been evident from his very earliest prints and he remains a figurative artist, always concerned with the recreation of the visible world. But like Ensor, whose work he echoes (but does not mimic) in The Peasant's Entry into Brussels and A Gothic Tale, Smith added to the familiar world a substantial component of fantasy. Some of his finest prints were pastoral, like the lyrical The Four Seasons or the intimate Pines of Rapallo, but Smith had also remarked on the more grotesque aspects of modern society in a number of satirical works that were almost unknown even to those who have enthusiastically followed his career. In his plates, such as Roman Holiday or The Glory that was Rome, he pulled together the several strands of his earlier work, the exploration of architecture and nature, the treatment of the human figure in the city square and added a new sense of disciplined form and line. Above all, the prints of Moishe Smith are exceptionally personal statements, acknowledging a tradition of masterful printmaking. He died in Logan, Utah on July 5, 1993. 

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Artist: Moishe Smith
20th century aquatint etching figurative portrait ink unfinished female subject
20th century aquatint etching figurative portrait ink unfinished female subject

Moishe Smith20th century aquatint etching figurative portrait ink unfinished female subject, 1962

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20th century aquatint etching figurative portrait ink unfinished female subject

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Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Maria (Artist's Wife)" is an original etching by Moishe Smith, signed in the bottom right corner and numbered in the bottom left. The piece depicts a seated woman from the waist up,...

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Moishe Smith"Stampede, " Original Black and White Etching by Moishe Smith, 1976

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"Stampede, " Original Black and White Etching by Moishe Smith

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"Stampede" is an original etching by Moishe Smith. This etching depicts a crowd of people looking at a stage. The viewer sees only the backs of the heads in the crowd. This is editio...

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1970s Moishe Smith Prints and Multiples

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