Margaret Lowengrund

{{short description|American artist}}

Margaret Lowengrund (b. 1902 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d. 1957 New York) was an American artist and a key figure in the American Print Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. Lowengrund attended at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and also studied with Joseph Pennell in New York.{{cite web |title=Margaret Lowengrund |url=https://emuseum.delart.org/people/561/margaret-lowengrund/objects |website=Delaware Art Museum |access-date=13 November 2022}} She founded the pioneering the Contemporaries Graphic Art Centre in 1955, originally the Contemporaries gallery founded in 1952 and which later became the Pratt Graphic Art Center upon her death.{{cite book|last1=Greenspun|first1=Joanne|title=Artists & Prints: Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art|date=2004|publisher=Museum of Modern Art|location=NY|isbn=0-87070-125-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hWV0w7oi7UcC|accessdate=18 September 2017}}{{cite web |title=Contemporaries gallery records |url=https://archives.nypl.org/mss/6212 |website=The New York Public Library |access-date=14 November 2022}} She is known for her etchings, lithographs, and paintings and was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist.

Lowengrund's work is in the permanent collection of the Delaware Art Museum,{{cite web |title=Margaret Lowengrund |url=https://emuseum.delart.org/people/561/margaret-lowengrund |website=Delaware Art Museum |access-date=13 November 2022 |language=en}} the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{cite web|title=The Met Collection – Margaret Lowngrund|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/375273|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|accessdate=18 September 2017}} the National Gallery of Art,{{cite web |title=Margaret Lowengrund |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.4752.html |website=National Gallery of Art |access-date=13 November 2022}} The Newark Museum of Art{{Cite web|url=https://www.newarkmuseumart.org/search-our-collection|title=Search Our Collection {{!}} Newark Museum|website=www.newarkmuseumart.org|access-date=2020-03-07}} the Spencer Museum of Art,{{cite web|title=Collection search – Margaret Lowengrund|url=http://collection.spencerart.ku.edu/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultDetailView/result.tab.link&sp=13&sp=Sartist&sp=SelementList&sp=0&sp=0&sp=999&sp=SdetailView&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=1&sp=T&sp=0&sp=SdetailList&sp=0&sp=SdetailBlockKey&sp=0|website=Spencer Museum of Art|accessdate=18 September 2017}} the Library of Congress,{{cite web|title=Collection – Margaret Lowengrund|url=https://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?fi=name&q=Lowengrund%2C%20Margaret%2C%201902-1957|website=Library of Congress|accessdate=18 September 2017}} and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.{{cite web |title=Lowengrund, Margaret |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Margaret_Lowengrund/ |website=SFMOMA |access-date=13 November 2022}} Her work was included in the Office of Emergency Management Art in War exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1942.{{cite web|title=Art in War|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/20800|website=MoMA|accessdate=18 September 2017}}