Margaret Ponce Israel (also known as Marge Israel) (December 24, 1929 — April 22, 1987) was a painter and ceramicist who lived and worked in New York City. She was born in 1929 in

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, and brought to the U.S. as an infant. She attended the

High School of Music & Art The High School of Music & Art, informally known as "Music & Art" (or "M&A"), was a public specialized high school located at 443-465 West 135th Street in the borough of Manhattan, New York, from 1936 until 1984. In 1961, Music & Art and the High ...

in New York and Syracuse University. She studied ceramics at

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, where she eventually became an instructor. She also studied in Paris, France, at the

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, the Stanley William Hayter Graphic Art Studio,

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, and the

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. In 1956 Israel won both first and second prize in ceramics at the ''Young Americans'' exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, today the

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. She taught at Parsons School of Design,

, the High School of Music & Art, and Y.M.H.A., all in New York City. She was married to New York artist

Marvin Israel Marvin Israel (July 3, 1924 – May 7, 1984) was an American artist, photographer, painter, teacher and art director from New York City known for modern/surreal interiors, abstract imagery. Israel created sinister shadowy and exuberant interiors ...

from 1950 until his death in 1984. She died in 1987, aged 57, in Manhattan after being hit by a tractor-trailer while riding her bike on West 23rd Street. Upon her death, her studio was overflowing with artwork. Her studio and home was a three-story building in Manhattan that was once a horse stable. There she housed a bantam rooster, guinea hens, doves, a rabbit, dogs, and a cat. Her works depict many of these animals, and an exhibition of her work entitled ''A Domestic Bestiary'' was shown at the Perimeter Gallery in Chicago in February 1998.

Exhibitions

* 1959 -

Charles Egan Gallery The Charles Egan Gallery opened at 63 East 57th Street (Manhattan) in about 1945, when Charles Egan was in his mid-30s. Egan's artists helped him fix up the gallery: "Isamu Noguchi did the lighting... Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline painted the w ...

, New York City * 1961 - Charles Egan Gallery, New York City * 1971 - Cordier & Ekstrom, New York City * 1972 - ''Bestiary'', Cordier & Ekstrom, New York City * 1988 - Garth Clark Gallery, New York City * 1990 -

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, New York City * 1990 - ''Retrospective'', Twining Gallery, New York City * 1991 - Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL * 1995 - ''25th Anniversary Exhibition'', Jane Hartsook Gallery,

, New York City * 1995 - ''The Nude in Clay'', Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL * 1995 - ''Artists' Artist'', Studio School Museum, New York City * 1996 - ''The Nude in Clay'', Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI * 1996 - ''The Magical Art of Construction'', Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL * 1997 - Susan Teller Gallery, New York City * 1997 - ''A Domestic Bestiary'', Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI * 1997 - ''Retrospective'', Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL * 1998 - ''A Domestic Bestiary'', Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL * 1999 - ''1945-1985: Hannelore Baron, Dorothy Dehner and Margaret Ponce Israel'', Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

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