https://home.vclibrary.vassarspaces.net/files/original/0ec380ceb27c5d0b825424bec2b25e73.jpg fad8c7f05057538b65987f41644c3ffc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource In Memoriam Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. This work is copyright © Harry Roseman. All rights reserved. For reproduction or use inquires, or for any questions about the site, contact Harry Roseman. Description An account of the resource This section is pretty self-explanatory. Like just about with everything on this site I am way behind. If this site gets to stay active after I die (this possibility sits with Vassar College), eventually everyone on the site could be in this section. I am thinking if it stays active, whether I would like to have someone else add people to this section as they die, including me. Of Course this information would have had to cross their paths. That is something I need to think about. If I arrange for that to happen I would have that person or those people indicate that they are the ones who added a particular name. Roseman Harry Roseman: A Chronicle Image Caption Caption for photograph Mazur, Michael Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Subject The topic of the resource roseman:in-memoriam Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Description An account of the resource Michael Mazur. -------- 11/02/1935 - 08/18/2009 -------- Obituary from the New York Times , August 29, 2009 ---------- Michael Mazur, a relentlessly inventive printmaker, painter and sculptor whose work encompassed social documentation, narrative and landscape while moving back and forth between figuration and abstraction, died on Aug. 18 in Cambridge, Mass. He was 73 and lived in Cambridge and Provincetown, Mass.nnThe cause was congestive heart failure, said Mary Ryan, his New York dealer.nnMr. Mazur first came to public notice in the early 1960s with two series of etchings and lithographs depicting inmates in a mental asylum in Howard, R.I. The series, “Closed Ward” and “Locked Ward,” rendered with the hand of a master draftsman, showed human beings in unbearable torment.nnThese lost souls, John Canaday wrote in The New York Times, “have the terrible anonymity of individuals who cannot be reached, whose ugly physical presence is only the symptom of a tragic spiritual isolation.”nnMr. Mazur’s restless artistic temperament led him to explore a variety of styles and media, shuttling between realism and abstraction. He produced narrative paintings like “Incident at Walden Pond,” a triptych from the late 1970s depicting the aftermath of a rape, and, beginning in the 1990s, abstract landscapes based on his own vascular system and on Chinese landscapes of the 12th to 15th centuries.nAfter seeing an exhibition of Degas monotypes at the Fogg Museum in 1968, he began exploring that medium, most notably in the monumental Wakeby landscapes of 1983, depicting Wakeby Lake on Cape Cod, and in a series of illustrations for Robert Pinsky’s translation of Dante’s “Inferno,” published in 1994.n“It’s hard to characterize him because he was always trying new things,” said Clifford S. Ackley, the chairman of prints, drawings and photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “He did not fall into the trap of repeating himself the way so many older artists do. In the last week of his life he was doing pen-and-ink drawings of flowers and gardens.”nnMichael Burton Mazur grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and attended the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, where he belonged to an art club whose members included the future curator Henry Geldzahler and the future New Yorker cartoonist Ed Koren.nnWhile attending Amherst College he studied with the printmaker and sculptor Leonard Baskin, who was teaching at Smith College. After taking a year off to study in Italy, where his lifelong fascination with Dante began, he received a bachelor’s degree in 1957 and went on to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine art from the Yale School of Art and Architecture.nWhile at Yale he married Gail Beckwith, a poet known by her married name. She survives him, as do their two children, Dan, of Cambridge, and Kathe, of Los Angeles, and two grandchildren.nnMr. Mazur taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brandeis University from 1961 to 1975 while exhibiting frequently in New York and Boston.nnIn 2000 a traveling retrospective of his prints opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The catalog, “The Prints of Michael Mazur With a Catalogue Raisonné, 1956-1999,” was published that year. “I’ll Tell What I Saw,” a selection of excerpts from Dante’s “Divine Comedy” illustrated by Mr. Mazur, is to be published by Sarabande Books in November.nnAlthough deadly serious as an artist, Mr. Mazur had a sly wit. In 1984 he wrote an article for the Op-Ed page of The New York Times proposing a W.P.A.-style project under which artists could decorate nuclear warheads, just as Renaissance artists embellished armor and weapons.nn“It is not hard to imagine the vivid colors, bas reliefs, even graffiti, that would make spectacles of beauty of those dull cones,” he wrote. In time, he suggested, the warheads would find their way into private collections and museums, thereby ending the possibility that they might be deployed. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 1 photograph Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Online collection published by Vassar College Libraries, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Title A name given to the resource Michael Mazur Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context roseman_7804 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Harry Roseman Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009-08-29 roseman:in-memoriam