Margaret Lowengrund
Margaret Lowengrund was an American artist and a key figure in the American Print Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. She founded the pioneering Pratt-Contemporaries Graphic Art Center in 1956, originally the Contemporaries gallery founded in 1952 and which later became the Pratt Graphic Art Center upon her death. She is known for her etchings, lithographs, and paintings and was a Works Progress Administration artist.
Lowengrund's work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Newark Museum of Art the Spencer Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and the National Gallery of Art. Her work was included in the Office of Emergency Management Art in War exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1942.
