Hugh Mesibov

Hugh Mesibov (December 29, 1916 – March 25, 2016 ) was an American abstract expressionist artist who began his career as a federal artist for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression and later became a member of the 10th Street galleries and part of the New York School during the 1940s-60s. His work has elements of the mid-20th-century New York artistic experience such as Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist and figurative aspects across several media such as watercolor, oil, and acrylic as well as etchings, lithographs and monoprints. His work has received a global reputation and is included in many collections in the United States and worldwide. There, he experimented with printmaking, which led to his co-invention of the Carborundum printmaking process with Thrash and Gallagher. and shared exhibition spaces with Milton Avery, Nell Blaine, Ralph Rosenborg, John Ferron and Boris Margo. The abstract expressionist painters soon formed a school known as “The Club,” of which Mesibov was a member.