Reading Music

Artist Maurice Green (1908 - 1993)

Date1972

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineGift of the Hilbert Collection

Object number2018.212

DescriptionBorn in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the day before settling in Los Angeles in the 1930s. The artist continued his art education and began exhibiting throughout galleries in Southern California. Due to his intense fascination with the cubist avant garde movement, cubist imagery – sometimes infused with surrealism -- became his trademark style of painting for the remainder of his life. Many of his paintings feature musical instruments in their subject matter. Green had several one-man exhibitions in major galleries, and his paintings can be found in a growing number of private collections, including The Hilbert Collection.

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