Joseph Margulies was born in Vienna,
Austria in 1896. He immigrated to the United States at an early
age. Margulies studied at the Art Students League of New York
with the printmaker Joseph Pennell (1857-1926), from 1922 to
1925. Margulies then continued his studies at the National Academy
of Design, Cooper Union in New York City, as well as the Art
Students League in this countryand at the École des Beaux-Arts
in Paris. He also apprenticed with Maynard Waltner in Vienna.
While he received many commissions for
his acclaimed portraits, he still found time to paint appealing
scenes of Central Park, Riverside Drive and other enchanting
landmarks of New York City, the cultural mecca of the world and
the city where he lived.
But then, summers beckoned him to Cape
Ann where he was drawn to the Rockport Art Association, an area
much beloved by many artists. Margulies maintained a summer studio
in Gloucester and contributed to a remarkable chapter in the
history of American art which embraced that circle of artist
luminaries, Leon Kroll, John Sloan Edward Hopper, and Hayley
Lever, all who shared in that haven of beauty where talent abounded.
Like Hopper, Margulies, too, was inspired by the stark drama
of the harbor.
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