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Michael Loew

{{Short description|American painter (1907–1985)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2015}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Michael Loew

| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1907|5|8}}

| birth_place = New York City, New York, United States

| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1985|11|14|1907|5|8}}

| death_place = New York City, New York, United States

| education = Art Students League of New York, Académie Scandinave

| occupation = Painter, teacher

| known_for = Painting

| training =

| movement = Abstract expressionism, geometric abstraction, hard-edge painting

| patrons =

| awards = Judith Rothchild Grant, 1997, Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship Grant

}}

Michael Loew (May 8, 1907 — November 14, 1985) was an American abstract expressionist painter and teacher, who was active in New York City. He taught for many years at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) and University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).

Career

In the late 1920s, Loew studied at the Art Students League of New York with the Ashcan School and was a recipient of a Sadie A. May Fellowship which allowed Loew to continue his studies in France.[http://www.galeriedominion.ca/html%20files/loew_page.html online biographic notes]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Retrieved June 28, 2010 He studied at Académie Scandinave in Paris.{{Cite news |date=1964-08-04 |title=Fourth Exhibit Planned By Maine Coast Artists |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bangor-daily-news/163548603/ |access-date=2025-01-21 |work=The Bangor Daily News |pages=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Michael worked for New Deal art projects from 1933 to 1937, and during this time painted murals for U.S. post offices, high schools and the Hall of Pharmacy for the 1939 New York World's Fair. Loew chose to share his private commission with close friend and fellow artist, Willem de Kooning.Stevens M., Swan A. (2006). "De Kooning an American Master", pp. 149–150Slivka, Rose C.S. (1989). "Willem de Kooning", Art Journal 48 no. 3, Fall '89, pp. 219–221

From 1939 to 1940 Loew traveled to Mexico and the Yucatán, gathering inspiration for his future work. Joining the U.S. Navy Seabees in 1943 as a Battalion Painter, Loew documented the work being done on the airbase on Tinian Island. It was from this airbase that the Enola Gay would later take off from to drop the atomic bombs. Loew captured much of the work done on the island by the Navy in dozens of watercolors.

Returning to New York after the war, having lost much of his hearing, Loew started over with his art studies. He studied with Hans Hofmann at the Hans Hofmann School in New York and Provincetown,[http://modernkicks.typepad.com/modern_kicks/2005/01/michael_loew.html exhibition review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100508162138/http://modernkicks.typepad.com/modern_kicks/2005/01/michael_loew.html |date=May 8, 2010 }} Retrieved June 28, 2010 and with Fernand Léger at Atelier Leger in Paris. Loew became a member of the American Abstract Artists and The Artist's Club as well as The Spiral Group. His works were shown at the Stable Gallery Annuals of 1951–1955.New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.)

In 1960 and again in 1966, Loew was hired to teach at the University of California, Berkeley. He also spent nearly three decades as a teacher at the School of Visual Arts.Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560 In 1976 he won a fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 1979 he was awarded a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation.

Over the course of his life, Michael's work was exhibited extensively in galleries, museums and other cultural institutions including: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The Michael Loew Papers are located in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. His works have been exhibited in galleries including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in New York City and the Thomas McCormick Gallery.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IR4auZa1dcgC&q=Michael+Loew+shapolsky&pg=PT297|title=2010 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market|date=October 12, 2009|publisher=F+W Media |isbn=9781599635682|access-date=December 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422231603/https://books.google.com/books?id=IR4auZa1dcgC&pg=PT297&dq=Michael+Loew+shapolsky&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oGEKVYzLNpPnsAS7tIKoBQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Michael%20Loew%20shapolsky&f=false|archive-date=April 22, 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.anitashapolskygallery.com/loew.html|title=Anita Shapolsky Gallery NYC|work=anitashapolskygallery.com|access-date=March 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419080420/http://www.anitashapolskygallery.com/loew.html|archive-date=April 19, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K5ZLAQAAIAAJ&q=Michael+Loew+gallery|title=Michael Loew, 1907–1985|access-date=December 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415103923/https://books.google.com/books?id=K5ZLAQAAIAAJ&q=Michael+Loew+gallery&dq=Michael+Loew+gallery&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fWIKVdjsO6S_sQTKyYDgBg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAQ|archive-date=April 15, 2016|url-status=live|last1=Loew|first1=Michael|last2=Kingsley|first2=April|last3=Gallery|first3=Thomas Mccormick|date=April 2008|publisher=McCormick Gallery |isbn=9780967101378}}

In 1997 his estate was awarded the Judith Rothschild Foundation Grant.

Teaching positions

Awards and fellowships

Collections

References

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Further reading

  • American Abstract Artists (1957). "The World of Abstract Art", pp. 167
  • Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
  • Baur, J. (1974). Whitney Museum of American Art, Catalogue of the Collection, pp. 235
  • Campbell, L. (1984). "Michael Loew at Marilyn Pearl Gallery", Art in America, pp. 193
  • Curtis, J., Lieberman F. (1995). "Monhegan The Artists' Island"
  • Falk, Peter Hastings, (1999) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564–1975, 3 Volumes, pp. 3724
  • Gordon, J. (1962). "Geometric Abstraction in America", pp. 68
  • Herskovic M. (2000). New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) {{ISBN|0-9677994-0-6}}
  • Kingsley, A. (1973). "New York Letter", Art International, Apr. 1973, pp. 52–53
  • Kingsley, A. (2008). [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232337632] "Michael Loew 1907–1985: The Beginning Works from the Estate" (Chicago and New York: Mc Cormick Gallery/ Vincent Vallarino Fine Art, 2008)
  • Larsen, S. C. (1979). "A Painter's Geometry: The Art of Michael Loew", Arts Magazine, pp. 130–134
  • Larsen, Susan C (1997) "Michael Loew: Nature into Abstraction", The Farnsworth Art Museum
  • Slivka, Rose C.S. (1989). "Willem de Kooning", Art Journal 48 no. 3, Fall '89, pp. 219–221
  • Stevens, M., Swan, A. (2006). "De Kooning an American Master"
  • Stuart P. (1949). "Abstract Quartet", New York Times, November 27, 1949

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110317180918/http://www.hollistaggart.com/artists/biography/michael_loew/ biography] 2011, at Hollis Taggart Galleries
  • [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-michael-loew-12902 Oral history interview with Michael Loew, 1973 Oct. 5-12], Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

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Category:American modern painters

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Category:20th-century American painters

Category:American male painters

Category:Abstract expressionist artists

Category:Art Students League of New York alumni

Category:20th-century American war artists

Category:American muralists

Category:Federal Art Project artists

Category:National Endowment for the Arts Fellows

Category:School of Visual Arts faculty

Category:University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty

Category:Section of Painting and Sculpture artists

Category:20th-century American male artists