MOE BROOKER (1940 - 2022) This One's For You, Musa.
Color screenprint on wove paper, 1982. 755x552 mm; 29 3/4x21 3/4 inches. Printer's proof, aside from the edition of 34. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "P/P" in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia.
Illustrated: Allan L. Edmunds, ed. and Halima Taha. Three Decades of American Printmaking; The Brandywine Workshop Collection fig. 114, p. 84.
Abstract painter and educator Moe Brooker earned a BFA and MFA from Philadelphia's Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University and certification from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has won several lifetime achievement awards, including the Governor's Award for Artist of the Year from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Medal of Achievement from the Philadelphia Art Alliance. Brooker was a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, as well as the first Bob Fox Distinguished Professor at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia. Brooker's work can be found in the permanent collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Consigned to support the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia and its legacy endowment campaign.
