Discipline: Visual Art

Murray Hantman

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1970
Murray Hantman (1904-1999) was a painter, muralist, and teacher. Over the course of his career Hantman's work progressed from realism to abstraction. His later work shows a mastery of color and form. Based in New York, Hantman spent summers on Monhegan Island in Maine. Like many of his generation, Hantman ultimately rejected explicit narrative in his paintings for a more primal expression of experience.

Studios

Mixter

Murray Hantman worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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