WPA WOMAN ARTIST Serigraph 1939 ~ SOCIAL REALIST ~ Museum Quality CLAIRE MAHL

Description: An interesting Depression era color serigraph from American artist Claire Mahl Moore (1917–1988) . It dates to 1939, a time when Mahl was employed by the Federal Art Project of the WPA, one of Roosevelt's New Deal programs. Good sized and nicely framed with a silk mat, the visible image measures approx. 16 3/4 x 13 inches, with frame and mat the overall dimensions are 26 3/4 x 22 3/4 inches. The lower margin is pencil signed by the artist with her initials as well as titled, dated for 1939 and noted as a small edition of 25 prints. Not examined out of frame, but appears to be in fine condition, the visible margin paper is shows some toning, typically this is from absorbing oil from the silkscreen ink. This is a rare early WPA era example of Mahl's work. This print is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.149137.html Claire Mahl Moore (1917–1988) was an American artist known for her printmaking. Her career spanned from the 1930s through the 1980s. Moore took classes at the Art Students League, under the instructors Charles Locke, Harry Wickey, and Thomas Hart Benton. During the Great Depression, she worked as a printmaker for the Federal Art Project of the WPA under the New Deal. She was a member of the "initial nucleus" of The Siqueiros Experimental Workshop in New York, 1936. The Workshop was organized by the Mexican artist, David Alfaro Siqueiros who was then visiting New York as a Mexican delegate to the American Artists' Congress. Other artists in this "initial nucleus" include Harold Lehman, Sande McCoy, Jackson Pollock, Axel Horn, George Cox, Lou Ferstadt, Luis Arenal, Antonio Pujol, Conrado Vasquez, Jose Guatierrez, and Roberto Berdecio. The Workshop was "ready to raise the standard of a true revolutionary art program, and its two main goals were firstly, to be a base for exploration of "modern art techniques", and secondly, to "create art for the people." The workshop was organized along collective principles, with artists meeting and collaborating on works. Mahl's work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Hudson Walker Gallery, and the Julien Levy Gallery. Her work is in the collections of the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the New York Public Library,and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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Location: Spring Hill, Florida

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