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Robert Gwathmey "Migrant Farmer" 20th Century Color Screen Print pencil Signed and Numbered 37/100. Measures 27.75"H x 18.75"W Robert Gwathmey was born January 24, 1903, in Richmond, Virginia, and graduated from John Marshall High School in 1921. After some studies at North Carolina State University and the Maryland Institute of Design, he entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1926 and began teaching at Beaver College in Glenside, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia) after graduation in 1930. In 1835 he married Rosalie Hook, and they had a son, Charles, in 1938. Gwathmey taught at the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1939 to 1942 and then at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City until his retirement in 1968. He then moved to Amagansett, Long Island, to the home and studio designed by his son. Robert Gwathmey was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and to full membership in the National Academy of Design. He died in 1988 at the age of 85.
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