Colorado early art Pikes Peak woodcut print DAVID SPIVAK (1893-1932)
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Directory: Fine Art: Prints: Woodcuts: Pre 1930: Item # 1441859
Directory: Fine Art: Prints: Woodcuts: Pre 1930: Item # 1441859
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An early (circa 1920's) woodcut print titled at lower left margin "Pikes Peak", numbered there 8/100, and pencil signed at lower right by early, historical Colorado artist HAIM DAVID SPIVAK (1893-1932). The work measures 4" by 5 7/8" inside the mat and 9 1/2" by 11 1/2" in black strip frame. This sharply printed piece shows the famous Colorado mountain near Colorado Springs, a farm or homestead in the foreground. Spivak's works are rare, as he died at age 39 of a brain tumor. He worked in oil as well, painting landscapes of the Front Range and the Rockies in an impressionistic hand. Born in Philadelphia, he moved to Denver with his parents while young, as his mother needed to live in a drier, healthier climate due to medical issues. Spivak studied at the University of Denver, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Art Students League in New York (under Robert Henri). After serving in the military during World War I, he returned to Denver and then launched an active career in the fine arts, exhibiting and teaching. An active member of the Denver art community, he was a founding member of the Denver Artists Guild (1928). In 1927 he completed a major mural for the Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol Synagogue in Denver. The Denver Art Museum held a posthumous show of Spivak's rare work, which is occasionally offered by dealers in historical Colorado art. The University of Denver has a modest collection of materials relating to the artist and his family in its archives. Spivak was part of a surprisingly active community of Jewish artists in Colorado. It is only in recent decades that that community has been studied and researched.
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