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WILLIAM MEYEROWITZ Fishermen.
Oil on canvas, 1944. 510x610 mm; 20x24 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto.
Meyerowitz (1887-1981) was born in the Ukraine, and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1908. While a student at the National Academy of Design in New York, he sang in the choir at the Metropolitan Opera, and music remained an important influence in his work; he would frequent Harlem jazz clubs along with Stuart Davis (1892-1964). In addition to his New York genre scenes (see lot 171), he and his wife, the painter Theresa Bernstein (1895-2002), were involved with the circle of artists in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where they spent their summers painting landscape and maritime scenes.
