Joseph Rajer (1918 - 1976) was an American artist known for his woodcuts and

serigraph Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh ...

Biography

Rajer was born in 1918. He was a member of the

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...

New York graphic unit where he produced serigraphs (silk screens) and woodcuts. His work was included in 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the

National Serigraph Society The National Serigraph Society was founded in 1940 by a group of artists involved in the WPA Federal Art Project, including Anthony Velonis, Max Arthur Cohn, and Hyman Warsager. The creation of the society coincided with the rise of serigraphs bei ...

. Rajer died in 1976. Rajer's work is in the collection of the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

, the

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, and the

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Art Museum.

Gallery

Joseph Rajer - Ropes and Lobster Pots.jpg, '' Ropes and Lobster Pots'' Joseph Rajer - Rushes and Barges.jpg, ''Rushes and Barges''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rajer, Joseph 1918 births 1976 deaths American printmakers Federal Art Project artists American male artists