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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Cubist Female Nude emerging from raw stone
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These Notes from AskART represent the beginning of a possible future biography for this artist. Please click here if you wish to help in its development:
| A sculptor, painter and teacher, he was born in Chicago, Illinois and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, New York University and the Art Students League. He maintained his studio in New York City.
His work is at the Honolulu Academy of Art, the Whitney Museum in New York, and the Rittenhouse-Savoy in Philadelphia. | |
Biography from Papillon Gallery:
|  Robert B. Moir 1917-1981
A sculptor, painter and teacher, he was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 7, 1917. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, New York University and the Art Students League. He maintained his studio in New York City until 1980.
He worked and exhibited at the Honolulu Academy of Art. and the Rittenhouse-Savoy in Philadelphia, and the WPA.
Moir exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1940-41 and 1948. He exhibited the Whitney Museum in New York 1951-56.
In 1951-56 Moir exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in exhibitions call “Annual Exhibition of American Sculptors.” along with many prominent sculptors, including Alexander Archipenko, Alexander Calder, Chaim Gross, Milton Hebald, Paul Manship, and Harry Rosin. He had a one man show at the Sculptor's Guild in 1951 at Lever House in New York.
Moir was a member of New Sculpture Group, and the Sculptor's Guild. |
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