Margaret Lowengrund (b. 1902 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d. 1957 New York) was an American artist and a key figure in the American Print Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. She founded the pioneering Pratt-Contemporaries Graphic Art Center in 1956, originally the Contemporaries gallery founded in 1952 and which later became the Pratt Graphic Art Center upon her death.[1][2] She is known for her etchings, lithographs, and paintings and was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist.
Lowengrund's work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[3] The Newark Museum of Art[4] the Spencer Museum of Art,[5] the Library of Congress,[6] and the National Gallery of Art.[7] Her work was included in the Office of Emergency Management Art in War exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1942.[8]
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