Description
Samuel L. Margolies was an etcher, painter, teacher, writer and lecturer in New York City, where he was also born. He studied at Cooper Union Art School, the National Academy of Design, and with Victor Perard. Margolies was a member of the Society of American Etchers, American Printmakers and the Queensboro Society of Allied Arts and Crafts. He was a printmaker for the W.P.A. from 1935 to 1939. Margolies’ work was displayed at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. That same year, he began working for the Bundy Corporation as a circuit maker. His works are in the collections of the Society of American Etchers, the Library of Congress, the Mobile Museum of Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Asheville Art Museum and various embassies and federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
Condition: Generally very good, recently professionally cleaned and deacidified, with minor remaining toning, wear, handling.
References:
Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. Who Was Who in American Art. Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1985. p. 394.
“Samuel L. Margolies.” Asheville Art Museum. 2012. http://www.ashevilleart.org/artists/samuellmargolies/ (8 June 2015).
