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"Best known as a painter and print maker of surrealist imagery, Boris Margo was born in Wolotschisk, Ukraine. In 1919 he enrolled at the Polytechnik of Art at Odessa, and in 1924 received a grant to study at the Futemas (Workshop for the Art of the Future) in Moscow. A second grant enabled him to study the work of the old masters in the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad and to attend Pavel Filonov's Analytical School of Art in 1927. In 1928 Margo received a certificate from the Polytechnik and immigrated to Montreal, where he worked as a muralist for a year. Moving to New York City in 1930, he studied at the Roerich Museum and two years later began teaching there. He began experimenting with celluloid and acetone in his printmaking and was also an early user of the decalomania technique in oil painting. In 1943, he became an American citizen. Five years later, Margo founded "Creative Art Seminar" later called "Artists Gallery" in Orlando, Florida, and a year later established a similar venture in Provincetown, Massachusetts." Joann Moser Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America (Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1997)
Boris Margo was a Bok Fellow at the Research Studio during the 1946-1947, 1948-1949, and 1949-1950 Seasons