Irwin Rosenhouse
Irwin J. Rosenhouse (1924-2002) was an American visual artist based in New York City.
Early life and education
[edit]Rosenhouse was born in Chicago in 1924. He served in the US Merchant Marine and later earned his BFA from Cooper Union.[1]
Career
[edit]Rosenhouse's early career included work as a designer at the Museum of Modern Art[2] and created illustrations for several publishing houses.[3][4]
He also taught at Pratt Graphic Center, Brooklyn College, and New York City Technical College.
Rosenhouse illustrated a number of children's books[5][6] including What Kind of Feet Does a Bear Have? (with text by future best-selling novelist Judith Rossner),[7] Have You Seen Trees?[8][9][10] and The Science Book of Magnets. He also illustrated The Coffee House Song Book.[4]
He also created woodcuts for religious and history books,[11] music scores for Paul Kapp's General Music Publishing Co,[12] posters for The Arab-Israeli Peace Conference: The Road to Peace, 1989, and various record album covers[13] for Folkways Records,[14][15][16] MGM Records, Columbia Records,[17] Paul Kapp's Serenus Records.[18]
Rosenhouse's works have been shown at the Library of Congress, The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum,[19] and the San Francisco Museum of Art. Additionally, his work is in permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution.[20][21]
Rosenhouse was the proprietor of the Rosenhouse Gallery in New York.[22]
Awards include the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, two-time recipient of the Huntington-Hartford fellowship,[23] Billboard Annual Award and 1st Prize in the Rome Collaborative.
Rosenhouse resided in Nassau County, New York.
An award is given in his name by the Society of American Graphic Artists.[24][25]
References
[edit]- ^ "In Honor of/In Memory of". Cooper Union.
- ^ Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1967). Bulletin.
- ^ "The coffee house songbook.". World Cat.
- ^ a b The Publishers Weekly, Volume 160 No. 9. F. Leypoldt. 1966. page 58
- ^ Young Children. National Association for the Education of Young Children. 1967.
- ^ The Book Buyer's Guide. 1967.
- ^ Bertha E. Mahony (1963). The Horn Book Magazine. Bookshop for Boys and Girls.
- ^ The New York Times Book Review. New York Times Company. April 1967.
- ^ Science Books. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1967.
- ^ Science Education. W.G. Whitman. 1969. p. 179.
- ^ William J. Chamberlin (1 January 1991). Catalogue of English Bible Translations: A Classified Bibliography of Versions and Editions Including Books, Parts, and Old and New Testament Apocrypha and Apocryphal Books. ABC-CLIO. pp. 182–. ISBN 978-0-313-28041-2.
- ^ Russell, Robert (1968). Places, Suite for Piano 4 Hands, Opus 9. New York, NY: General Music Publishing Company. pp. Cover.
- ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (26 December 1964). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 6–. ISSN 0006-2510.
{{cite book}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ "The Look of the Listen: The Cover Art of Folkways Records". Folkways Magazine.
- ^ Anna Kearney Guigné; Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute of Social and Economic Research (2008). Folksongs and folk revival: the cultural politics of Kenneth Peacock's Songs of the Newfoundland outports. ISER, Institute of Social and Economic Research. ISBN 978-1-894725-06-4.
- ^ "Ronald Clyne: Folkways Records Cover Design". Artspace.
- ^ "Sexy, Sensational Cover". December 7, 1960 The Progress-Index from Petersburg, Virginia
- ^ "Serenus Records Discography / For Sale". www.justabuzz.com. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "Exhibitions: National Print Exhibition, 11th Biennial". Brooklyn Museum.
- ^ Rosenhouse, Irwin". Collection database at the Smithsonian Institution
- ^ "Library Displaying Rosenhouse's Works". Daily Sentinel, Rome, NY, 4 November 1965.
- ^ Johnson Publishing Company (5 March 1964). New York Beat. Johnson Publishing Company. pp. 63–. ISSN 0021-5996.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ about the dissolution of the Huntington Hatrtford artist colony) Pottstown Mercury , Pottstown, Pennsylvania · July 2, 1965 Page 17.
- ^ "SAGA members exhibit" Archived 2013-08-18 at the Wayback Machine. SAGAzine.
- ^ "Hats off". Ka Lono Kanakahi, Volume 24 No. 5.
- Irwin Rosenhouse Bio, Show Poster, The Bowery Savings Bank, 1978.
- Poster: Irwin Rosenhouse: The Humanist Image, Paintings and Graphics, Toronto, Tungston Galleries, 1966.
- Marquis Who's Who: Irwin J Rosenhouse
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