Lot #17 - Maurice MOLARSKY, 1885-1950 (Ukraine/France/USA)
Maurice MOLARSKY, 1885-1950 (Ukraine/France/USA)
Estimate: 3 000 - 5 000 £
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Maurice MOLARSKY (da 1885-1950 te)
Still life with vegetables and rabbit, early 20th century
Oil on canvas, size 69 x 69 cm (27 1/8 x 27 1/8 inches)
Signed lower right
Maurice Molarsky, also known as Morris Molarsky (May 25, 1885, Kyiv, Russian Empire - January 1, 1950, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), was an American artist of Jewish origin, best known as a portrait painter, although he also painted landscapes, genre scenes, still lifes, and floral compositions. His family emigrated to the United States through London and settled in Philadelphia. Molarsky studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he was enrolled from 1899 to 1904 and again from 1906 to 1910
among his teachers were Thomas Pollock Anshutz and William Merritt Chase. In 1903 he received the Thouron Prize for Composition, and in 1904 he was awarded the Cresson Traveling Scholarship, which enabled him to work in Europe, including at St Ives in Cornwall with Walter Elmer Schofield, and later in Paris, where he maintained a studio at 93 rue de Vaugirard. He returned to Philadelphia in 1906 and spent most of his career there, with a later period of activity in New York, where in 1914 he opened a studio on West 67th Street and was associated with Macbeth Gallery. Molarsky exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1904 to 1950, received the PAFA Fellowship Prize in 1909, showed at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1910 and 1914, and also exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Baltimore, Buffalo, and Boston. He received a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915 and another silver medal at the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1926. His solo exhibition was held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1946, followed by a memorial exhibition there in 1950. Works by Molarsky are held in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Princeton University Art Museum.
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Still life with vegetables and rabbit, early 20th century
Oil on canvas, size 69 x 69 cm (27 1/8 x 27 1/8 inches)
Signed lower right
Maurice Molarsky, also known as Morris Molarsky (May 25, 1885, Kyiv, Russian Empire - January 1, 1950, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), was an American artist of Jewish origin, best known as a portrait painter, although he also painted landscapes, genre scenes, still lifes, and floral compositions. His family emigrated to the United States through London and settled in Philadelphia. Molarsky studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he was enrolled from 1899 to 1904 and again from 1906 to 1910
among his teachers were Thomas Pollock Anshutz and William Merritt Chase. In 1903 he received the Thouron Prize for Composition, and in 1904 he was awarded the Cresson Traveling Scholarship, which enabled him to work in Europe, including at St Ives in Cornwall with Walter Elmer Schofield, and later in Paris, where he maintained a studio at 93 rue de Vaugirard. He returned to Philadelphia in 1906 and spent most of his career there, with a later period of activity in New York, where in 1914 he opened a studio on West 67th Street and was associated with Macbeth Gallery. Molarsky exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1904 to 1950, received the PAFA Fellowship Prize in 1909, showed at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1910 and 1914, and also exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Baltimore, Buffalo, and Boston. He received a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915 and another silver medal at the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1926. His solo exhibition was held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1946, followed by a memorial exhibition there in 1950. Works by Molarsky are held in the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Princeton University Art Museum.
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