Sidney Hurwitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1932. He studied at the School of the Worcester Art Museum, received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Brandeis University and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Boston University. Under a Fulbright Fellowship he continued his studies in Germany at the Stuttgart Academy of Art and in Maine at the Skowhegan School. He taught at Wellesley College, Brandeis University, and Amherst College. Hurwitz is Professor Emeritus at Boston University where he taught for over 30 years.
Working primarily in woodcut and later intaglio, Hurwitz has exhibited his work widely both in America and abroad. The artist received a number of awards, among them a Fulbright Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Prize, and a fellowship from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. For the past few years Hurwitz produced a number of hand-colored aquatints based on imagery from the steel industry and related industrial and urban subjects.
