Morton Garchik, Original Judaica Woodcut Print 'Joyous Songs' Dancing Jewish Couple

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Original pencil signed Judaic woodcut on mulberry paper.
MORTON GARCHIK (1929-2009) Jewish American artist painter, printmaker, illustrator, woodcut artist and … Read more Original pencil signed Judaic woodcut on mulberry paper.
MORTON GARCHIK (1929-2009) Jewish American artist painter, printmaker, illustrator, woodcut artist and author. Garchik was educated at the Art School of the Brooklyn Museum and the School of Visual Arts where he won the First Prize in drawing. Since then he has received many more prizes. He designed of the Book cover of “Gimpel The Fool” by Isaac Bashevis Singer. His woodcuts appeared in Harper's Magazine and books.His graphics have appeared in the Seattle Art Museum’s International Exhibitions, the Honolulu Printmakers International, DePaul Univ. 7th Annual Contemporary American Printmakers Exhibition. He has had numerous one-man shows in the United States and Canada. In New York his work was represented by the Associated American Artists gallery. The Minnesota Museum of Art and The Library of Congress have acquired examples of his work.
Best known for his woodcuts, Morton Garchik is a New York artist with an expressive, humorous style. After he left school, the scratchy, folksy Expressionist style of his woodcuts gained recognition and he began exhibiting throughout the United States. Garchik had one-man shows in New York, Chicago, and Toronto, Canada. His work can be found in the collection of the MIT List Visual Arts Center See less