Ladder, 1973
Engraving and Aquatint, 41" x 24"
Michael Mazur was born in New York City in 1935. He attended the Horace Mann School, New York and received a B.A from Amherst College, Massachusetts before completing a B.F.A. in 1959 and an M.F.A. in 1961 at the School of Art Yale University. He exhibited widely throughout the United States and Korea and his work is included in collections at the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Smithsonian, Washington, DC. His graceful work encompassed folding screens, monotypes, pastel drawings, and other works on paper. His painterly technique perfectly complemented his images, which were often of plants and trees, or of tools. Mazur died on August 18, 2009.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.