Margaret Israel (1929-1987) American
Mixed media on board (48" x 51")
The Beach
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Margaret Israel (1929-1987)

A native of Cuba, Mrs. Israel came to the United States as an infant. She attended Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y., and later studied art at several institutions in Paris, including the Ecole des Beaux Arts, the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and Atelier 17.

Margaret Israel was  an artist whose mixed-media constructions and collages were highly praised for combining the fancy and innocence of folk art with a modern sophistication. She produced drawings, paintings, terra-cotta figures, bamboo constructions and multimedia works of excellent craftmanship and poetic delicacy.

She first showed in New York at the Egan Gallery in 1961, and had regular shows throughout the 70's and 80's at the Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery on Madison Avenue.

''She works on a bold scale, filling whole rooms with the objects of her imagination,'' Hilton Kramer wrote in The New York Times in 1978. Margaret Israel was killed in Manhattan in an accident when her bicycle collided with a tractor-trailer. She was 57 year old.

Source: The New York Times