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7 may 1984 dallas , texas barbara kruger syracuse , new york american art director , painter , teacher july 3 , 1924 01-israel marvin.jpg marvin israel
 marvin israel
marvin israel

marvin israel -lrb- july 3 , 1924 -- may 7 , 1984 -rrb- , was born in syracuse , new york , the son of bessie and harry israel .
he was an american artist , photographer , painter , teacher and art director from new york known for modern/surreal interiors , abstract imagery .
israel created sinister shadowy and exuberant interiors with implications of violence that was often sexual in nature .
in 1950 he was a graduate student at syracuse university and spent two years in paris studying and painting .
in 1952 he had his first one-man show at galerie arnaud , paris , france .
in 1953 was the start of his photographic period ; studied design with alexey brodovitch .
in 1955 he got his masters of fine arts in graphic design from yale ; became art director for seventeen magazine .
in 1956 he photographed elvis .
in 1960 , he left photography as his main media to concentrate on drawing in charcoal , pastel and ink .
from 1961 to 1963 he was fashion editor for `` harper 's bazaar '' where he featured richard avedon , along with artists such as diane arbus , robert frank , lee friedlander , larry rivers , andy warhol , and established masters such as henri cartier-bresson and walker evans .
from 1957 to 1963 he worked as a freelance art director for atlantic records .
in 1963 taught painting and design in new york city at parsons school of design , cooper union and at the rhode island school of design in 1966 he had his first one-man show at cordier and elkstron gallery in nyc .
in 1967 he became art director for mademoiselle magazine .
in 1970 he designed richard avedon 's photo exhibition at the minneapolis institute of arts .
in 1978 he had a retrospective exhibition in the brusberg gallery in hanover , west germany .
in may 1984 while in dallas , texas working on richard avedon 's exhibition , `` in the american west '' he had a heart attack and died .
he was married to cuban-born new york sculptor and ceramicist margaret ponce israel .
he maintained a two-story cupola studio/living space on top of a new york city skyscraper .
in addition to the american artists and photographers with whom he worked , he was widely known among and friendly with such notable photographers and artists as lisette model , mary frank , peter beard , saul leiter , and garry winogrand .
in 1972 he appeared as himself in the documentary film , '' '' .
in 1986 a retrospective of marvin 's art was held at parson 's school of design .
in 1991 a retrospective was held at twining gallery in nyc .
