Claire Mahl Moore

Claire Mahl Moore
Born1917 (1917)
Died1988(1988-00-00) (aged 70–71)
Other namesClara Mahl, Claire Moore, Claire Millman
EducationArt Students League
MovementSiqueiros Experimental Workshop

Claire Mahl Moore (1917–1988) was an American artist known for her printmaking.[1] 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 under the New Deal.[2]

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."[3] The workshop was organized along collective principles, with artists meeting and collaborating on works.[4]

Mahl's work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Hudson Walker Gallery, and the Julien Levy Gallery.[5] Her work is in the collections of the British Museum,[6] the Museum of Modern Art,[1] the National Gallery of Art,[7] the New York Public Library,[8] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[9]

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  • Mortgaged, c. 1936-39
    Mortgaged, c. 1936-39
  • Transportation, ca. 1935–43
    Transportation, ca. 1935–43
  • Palestine Youth, 1937
    Palestine Youth, 1937

References

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  1. ^ a b "Claire Moore". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  2. ^ Francey, Mary (1991). American Women at Work: Women Printmakers and the Federal Art Project. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  3. ^ Hurlburt, Laurance P. (1976). "The Siqueiros Experimental Workshop: New York, 1936". Art Journal. 35 (3). College Art Association: 237–246. doi:10.2307/775942. JSTOR 775942.
  4. ^ Prignitz-Poda, Helga (1981). TGP : ein Grafiker-Kollektiv in Mexico von 1937-1977 (in German). Seitz. p. 40. OCLC 487533010.
  5. ^ "Clara Mahl | IFPDA". ifpda.org. Archived from the original on 25 March 2014. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  6. ^ "Clara Moore print". The British Museum. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  7. ^ "An American Family -". Wallach Prints and Photos. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  8. ^ "Clara Mahl". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
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