TitleTen Pigs on a Quilt
Artist
Murray Zimiles
(American, b. 1941)
Date2009
MediumInk and oil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 39 7/8 x 59 7/8 in.
Framed: 40 3/8 x 60 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, November 18, 2009
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number2009.18
Label TextBorn in New York, Zimiles originally studied engineering at the University of Illinois, but through his uncle, surrealist painter, Boris Margo, he became interested in art and switched majors. He went on to do an MFA at Cornell University, completing his degree in painting and printmaking in 1965. Throughout his career, Murray Zimiles has worked in larges series beginning in the 1970s with his "Artist in the Studio," comprised of figure groupings in interior spaces. He continued in the 1980s through the late 1990s with "The Holocaust" series that dealt with the tough subject of the genocide during World War II. This was followed by the artist's "The Animal Series" out of which came Zimiles most recent work, such as "Ten Pigs on a Quilt." The artist's most current work comes out of the "Animal Series" and engages with landscape of the upper Hudson Valley, but whereas in the "Animal Series" the animals were incorporated in a grid-like way and the landscape had a regular perspectival recession of space, in works such as this Zimiles plays with spatial distortions of the landscape and the animals as well as patterning and color. The artist is also a scholar and in addition to his book on lithography, he has written on Mills of the Northeast and organized a large exhibition "Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel" on Jewish Folk art for the American Fold Art Museum in 2007.
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