About Joseph Margulies
Lived 1896 – 1984 (aged 87–88). Joseph Margulies was an American painter.
Joseph Margulies (1896–1984) was a Vienna-born American painter and printmaker.
Biography Gloucester Fisherman, oil on canvas painting by Joseph Margulies, private collectionJoseph Margulies was born in Vienna, Austria in 1896. He immigrated to the United States at an early age. Margulies studied at the Art Students League of New York with the printmaker Joseph Pennell (1857–1926), from 1922 to 1925. Margulies then continued his studies at the National Academy of Design, Cooper Union in New York City, and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He also apprenticed with Maynard Waltner in Vienna. He provided illustrations for Max Eastman's American radical magazine "The Masses". Margulies died in 1984.
Works Margulies is best known for his portrait prints and seascapes of the New England coast, as typified by Gloucester Fisherman. The Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Portrait Gallery (Washington D. C.) and Yale University Art Gallery are among the public collections holding work by Joseph Margulies.
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American artist (1896–1984)
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Joseph Margulies was born in 1896 in Vienna.
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Joseph Margulies died in 1984 in New York City.
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Joseph Margulies was a painter.
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Joseph Margulies was American.
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· DBpedia: Joseph Margulies (artist)
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