Moses Soyer
American, b. Russian, 1899 - 1974
(not assigned)New York, USA
SchoolSocial Realism
BiographyThe twin brother of Raphael Soyer (1899-1987), Moses Soyer established himself as an equally important painter and printmaker. In 1912 the Soyer family emigrated to the United States and permanently settled in New York in the following year. Moses Soyer's formal artistic education commenced several years late with studies in New York at the Copper Union, the National Academy of Design, the Educational Alliance and the Modern School. His teachers included Robert Henri and George Bellows. Known primarily for his original lithographs and oil paintings, Moses Soyer exhibited at such major institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Carnegie Institute and the Pennsylvania Museum of Fine Arts. Today his work is included in the following collections; the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Moses Soyer was a full member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design.
In the post World War Two era, Moses Soyer's art concentrated particularly upon figure studies. In 1964 he authored the book, Painting the Human Figure. Ballet Dancer is a fine example of his lithographic art from this period. (Source: The Art of the Print Gallery website, Accessed August 9, 2004,
Person TypeIndividual
Terms
- male
- Russian-American
