SAWYER Moses Abramovich

December 25, 1899 (Borisoglebsk Voronezh) - 1974 (New York)

painter and graphic artist.

born in the family of a teacher and amateur artist Abraham Sawyer, twin brother of the painter Raphael Sawyer. The first lessons of drawing was led by his father, who also introduced the brothers with a history of Russian art and took them to Moscow to show the Tretyakov Gallery.

in 1912 for political reasons, his father and his family left Russia and settled in the United States, first in Philadelphia, then - in New York, where Moses went to art school, Cooper Union, the National Academy of drawing, Ferrer then art school and art school of the Union of educators.

Since mid-1920 began to actively engage in creative work and participate in the exhibition activities. In 1928 was the first solo exhibition Sawyer Gallery "New Art Circle. Maintained close ties with representatives of the Russian emigres in the United States, was a close friend of DD Burliuk, who dedicated a poem to fellow artists "Sawyer". In 1926 traveled to Europe. Since 1927 engaged in teaching.

have attained fame in the U.S., personal exhibitions were successfully held in New York galleries "Klimanov" (1935), "Macbeth" (1939, 1940, 1943), "Hey-Hey-Si" (1945 , 1947, 1956). In 1963 he was elected a member of the National Academy of drawing, in 1966, the American Institute of Arts and Letters.

Moses Sawyer - one of the most significant representatives of the realist movement in American art of the twentieth century. Worked in a variety of genres and forms of art: painted portraits, nudity, performed murals, was engaged in lithography. Significant influence on the work J. Sawyer had Bellows and R. Henry. Was a strict adherent of realism, but avoided the journalistic sound peculiar to the works of his brother.

In his paintings are often used artistic techniques Impressionist and Post-Impressionists, his paintings are executed in a free manner and mature, usually not bright range of colors, dominated by various shades of blue and brown.

creativity of the artist is represented in many museums, including the Pushkin Museum in them. Pushkin Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, Philadelphia Art Museum and others.