Ira MOSKOWITZ (1912-2001) - artist of emigration, graph. He was born in Stryi (now Lviv Oblast). Together with his family moved to Prague (1914), and later to New York (1927). Studied at the League of Art Students (1928-1931) under the guidance of Henry Wickey. She began to exhibit works at exhibitions (since the 1930s). He received a Guggenheim scholarship (1943) and moved to New Mexico, where he worked for seven years as an active member of the Taos-Sante Fe artistic group. He created a large series of graphic works, due to which he received remarkable respect in the United States. Laureate of the Library of Congress Award (1945). He repeatedly visited Israel (1967-1969), where he held several personal exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Haifa). Many works have been devoted to Jewish subjects, illustrating various aspects of Israeli life and religion. The works are stored in the collections of the MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art (all in New York), the collections of the Library of Congress (Washington) and the Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh), museums of Israel and France.