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Builders of Babylon by Samuel Margolies

Builders of Babylon by Samuel Margolies

Catherine Burns Fine Art

Etching and Aquatint

1939

Edition Size: 250

Sheet Size: 14 ¼ x 11 inches

Signed

Condition: Excellent

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Etching and aquatint on wove paper. Edition of 250 published by the Associated American Artists, New York. Signed in pencil.

From Margolies‘ 25th floor studio, he had a bird’s eye view of the construction of the Empire State Building, his inspiration for this print, and “Men of Steel.” Today, it is Margolies’ modernist aquatints of New York that are highly regarded, not the traditional snowy landscapes also sold by Associated American Artists which were much more popular in his lifetime.

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The Artist

Samuel Margolies

Samuel L. Margolies was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1897 and studied in New York at the Cooper Union Art School and the National Academy of Design.  As most artists of this time, he began by exhibiting paintings.  The duality of subjects in his oeuvre, which would endure, is quite marked from the very beginning of his oeuvre.  On the one hand Margolies liked to depict the city of New York.  Skyscrapers seen from high above or looking up at dizzying vertical lines, loom large.  On the other hand, Margolies seems to have enjoyed the country, and peaceful landscapes, away from the bustle.  In these compositions, snow mounds and birch trees make frequent appearances.

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