Margaret Lowengrund (b. 1902 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d. 1957 New York) was an American artist and a key figure in the

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of the 1950s and 1960s. Lowengrund attended at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and also studied with Joseph Pennell in New York. She founded the pioneering the Contemporaries Graphic Art Centre in 1955, originally the Contemporaries gallery founded in 1952 and which later became the

Pratt Graphic Art Center The Pratt Graphic Art Center also called the Pratt Graphics Center was a print workshop and gallery in New York. The Center grew out of Margaret Lowengrund's Contemporaries Graphic Art Centre. In 1956 Fritz Eichenberg became the Center's director, ...

upon her death. She is known for her etchings, lithographs, and paintings and was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist. Lowengrund's work is in the permanent collection of the Delaware Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the

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the Spencer Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her work was included in the Office of Emergency Management ''Art in War'' exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1942.

Gallery

Margaret Lowengrund - Interior of Brickyard, ca. 1935.jpg, ''Interior of Brickyard'', ca. 1935 Margaret Lowengrund - The Elevated, ca.1936.jpg, ''The Elevated'', ca.1936

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images of Lowengrund's work
at the National Gallery of Art {{DEFAULTSORT:Lowengrund, Margaret 1902 births 20th-century American painters 20th-century American printmakers Artists from Philadelphia 1957 deaths Federal Art Project artists