Builders of Babylon
Artwork details
- Artist
- Samuel Margolies
- Title
- Builders of Babylon
- Date
- 1939
- Medium
- Etching and Aquatint
- Edition
- 250
- Sheet
- 14 ¼ x 11 inches
- Status
- Available
- Price
- Price on request
Samuel L. Margolies was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1897 and studied in New York at the Cooper Union Art School and the National Academy of Design. As most artists of this time, he began by exhibiting paintings. The duality of subjects in his oeuvre, which would endure, is quite marked from the very beginning of his oeuvre. On the one hand Margolies liked to depict the city of New York. Skyscrapers seen from high above or looking up at dizzying vertical lines, loom large. On the other hand, Margolies seems to have enjoyed the country, and peaceful landscapes, away from the bustle. In these compositions, snow mounds and birch trees make frequent appearances.
