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Artist and Model
1962 · Oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 20 1/8" (41 x 51.2 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Moses Soyer
Artist
PaintingSocial Realism
Representation
None documented
7
Institutional Exhibitions
2
Works in Collection
7
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Publications Referenced
90%
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Movements
- • Social Realism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Portraits
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973–1974
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Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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Drawings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966–1967
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44 Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965–1966
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Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
About
Why this artist matters now
Moses Soyer was an American painter known for figurative works depicting urban life and domestic interiors, often rendered in a realist mode with attention to light and psychological mood. Born in Russia and active in New York from the 1920s onward, he worked primarily in oil on canvas, capturing the textures of working-class and immigrant experience. His compositions balanced formal restraint with a subtle emotional depth, avoiding both sentimentality and stylistic abstraction.
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Social Realism
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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