Moissaye Marans (October 11, 1902 – 1977) was an American sculptor.

Life

Marans immigrated in 1924. He was a member of the

Federal Art Project The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administrati ...

. He taught at

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus. Being New York City's first publ ...

. His sculpture ''Isaiah'' is located at the Community Church in New York City. His sculpture of

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

is located in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. He work is held by the

San Jose Museum of Art The San José Museum of Art (SJMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum in downtown San Jose, downtown San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 1969, the museum holds a permanent collection with an emphasis on West Coast of the United Sta ...

, and

Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds o ...

. His papers are held by

Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...

, and the

Archives of American Art The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 20 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washingt ...

.Summary of the Moissaye Marans papers, 1934-1975 , Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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Moissaye Marans at the Smithsonian and Renwick''Life''
June 6, 1955 Artists from New York City Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States Artists from Chișinău 1902 births 1977 deaths Federal Art Project artists Brooklyn College faculty 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists American male sculptors Sculptors from New York (state) {{Judaism-bio-stub