Samuel L. Margolies

American, 1897 - 1974

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American painter / printmaker (1897 - 1974)

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Samuel L. Margolies, Associated American Artists, Builders of Babylon, 1950, etching and aquatint in black, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.3330

Builders of Babylon

Samuel L. Margolies, Associated American Artists · 1950 · etching and aquatint in black ·  Accession ID  2008.115.3330

Samuel L. Margolies, Associated American Artists, Path to the Sea, 1947, etching in black, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.3334

Path to the Sea

Samuel L. Margolies, Associated American Artists · 1947 · etching in black ·  Accession ID  2008.115.3334

Samuel L. Margolies, Associated American Artists, Men of Steel, 1941, drypoint in brown on wove paper, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.3329

Men of Steel

Samuel L. Margolies, Associated American Artists · 1941 · drypoint in brown on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2008.115.3329

Printed with bands and blocks in shades of gray against cream-white paper, we look across and down onto a city block crowded with at least five skyscrapers in this vertical, stylized etching and aquatint. The bases of the buildings crowd densely within the city block, and they flare slightly outward as they extend up toward us. The faces of the building are flat, solid, and smooth, with no windows. The buildings nearly fill the composition but dark clouds peek in along the top edge of the print. Rays of sunshine and shadows are shown as alternating bands of light and dark falling diagonally across the building facades from the upper right. Black cars fill the streets running along the two sides of the city block we can see, and tiny dots suggest people walking on sidewalks far below. The print’s title is written in pencil in the lower left, “Man’s Canyons,” and signed by the artist in the lower right, “S. L. Margolies.”
Samuel L. Margolies, Man's Canyons, 1936, etching and aquatint, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.3331

Man's Canyons

Samuel L. Margolies · 1936 · etching and aquatint ·  Accession ID  2008.115.3331

Samuel L. Margolies, Shacks by the Road, c. 1935-1943, mezzotint in black on wove paper, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.3332

Shacks by the Road

Samuel L. Margolies · c. 1935-1943 · mezzotint in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2008.115.3332

Samuel L. Margolies, Shadows, c. 1935-1943, etching, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.3333

Shadows

Samuel L. Margolies · c. 1935-1943 · etching ·  Accession ID  2008.115.3333