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foundadeadswallowwasheduponthebeach,entangledinseaweedandsome
branches.This,too,wasIcarus."
LeoMansowasborninNewYorkCityin1914.HestudiedattheNational
AcademyofDesignandhastraveledandworkedinMaine,Mexico,andProvincetown,
Massachusetts.HisworkhasbeenexhibitedinMexicoandinnationalexhibitions
intheUnitedStatesofAmerica.HisAspectsoftheHarborwasamongthepurchase
prizeawardsattheUniversityofIllinoisin1951.MansoteachesatNewYorkUni-
versityandtheCooperUnion.ArtSchool.HelivesinLongBeach,LongIsland,New
York.
MARGO,Boris,FromShipwrecks,52'/l>x30'/2. Illustration—Plate 18
"FromShipwrecksis,asisusuallythecasewithmypaintings,oneinascriesof
canvasesconcernedwithacentralidea.Thisgroupresultedfromtheexperienceof
livingintimatewithOcean,onthedunesofCapeCod.Butthiscanbeconsideredas
onlyaninitiatingstimulusfromthephysicalandemotionalenvironment,asnomore
thanthepointofdeparture.Therearemanyotherthingswhichgointothemaking
ofapainting;itisdevelopedbeyondtheinitiatingstimulusuntilitleadsaninde-
pendentexistence,becomesanewentity.Whencompleted,suchapaintingmay
suggestadifferenttitletoeachviewer.FromShipicrccksmerelyindicatestheimmedi-
atesourceofthiscanvas."
MargowasborninWolotschisk,Russia,in1902.Heobtainedmostofhistraining
inthepostwarUSSR: B.F..'\.atOdessa,studyatFutcmas(Workshopforthe.Vrt
oftheFuture)inMoscow,andattheFilonovSchool,Leningrad.In 1930 hecame
totheUnitedStatesandisnowacitizen. Hehastaughtprivatelyandatthe
AmericanUniversity,Washington,D.C.,from 1946 to 1948.Duringthepastfew
yearshehasconductedthe"CreativeArtSeminars"inBoston,Provincetown,Louis-
ville,andOrlando(Florida).Aprintmakeraswellasapainter,heistheinventorof
thecellocut,agraphicprocesswhichopenstoartistsanewmeansofexpression.
Margo'scellocutshavewonprizesatthePrintClub(Philadelphia)andtheBrook-
lynMuseum(FirstPrint.Annual,1947).Inthesameyear,theArtInstituteofChi-
cagoawardedhimapurchaseprizeforawatercolor.Hehashadovertwenty-five
one-manshowssince^1932 andhisworkhasbeenexhibitedacrossthenationand
abroad.
BorisMargo'sworkmaybeseeninseveralwell-knowncollections,includingthe
Mus(?umofModern.\rt.MetropolitanMuseumofArt,andWhitneyMuseumof
.AmericanArt,allinNew^'l>rk;theNewYorkPublicLibran;BrooklynMuseum:
.ArtInstituteofChicago;PhiladelphiaMuseumof.Art;IsaacDelgadoMuseumof
Art (NewOrleans); National GalleryofArt (Washington);theuniversitiesof
Michigan,NorthCarolina;andYaleUniversity.Amonghisworkswhichareprivately
ownedarethoseintheRosrnwaldandJosephaWhitneycollections.Helivesin
NewYorkCity.
MARTYL,TheRuins,?iQx40.
"Myintenseloveofnatureinitsinfinitevariety,andman"srelationtoit,moti-
vatemypainting.
"InTheRuins,forinstance,Iwasinterestedinportrayingmyfeelingaboutthe
vastness,powerandyetserenityofthelandscape.Itappearsasanintegrationof
