Margaret Ponce Israel

Margaret Ponce Israel (a/k/a Marge Israel) (1929–1987) was a painter and ceramist who lived and worked in New York City. She was married to New York artist Marvin Israel in 1950 and remained married until his death.[1] Ponce was born in 1929 in Havana, Cuba, brought to the US as an infant.[1] She died in 1987 at age 57 in Manhattan, hit by a tractor-trailer while riding her bike on West 23rd Street.[1]

Margaret Ponce Israel
Born1929 (1929)
Havana, Cuba
Died1987 (aged 57–58)
New York, New York
NationalityCuban-American
EducationSyracuse University[1]
Known forCeramics
Spouse(s)
Marvin Israel
(
m. after 1950)

Israel attended the High School of Music & Art in New York and Syracuse University, studying ceramics at Greenwich House Pottery, where she eventually became an instructor.[2] In 1956 Israel won both first and second prize in ceramics at the Young Americans exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, today the Museum of Arts and Design.[2]

Upon her death, her studio was overflowing with artwork. Her studio/home was a three-story building in Manhattan that was once a horse stable. There she housed a bantam rooster, guinea hens, doves, a rabbit, dogs, and a cat. Her works depict many of these animals, and an exhibit of her work, "A Domestic Bestiary," was at the Perimeter Gallery in Chicago in February, 1998. She taught at Parsons School of Design; Greenwich House Pottery; High School of Music & Art; Y.M.H.A.; all in NYC, and at Ecole des Beaux Arts; Stanley William Hayter Graphic Art Studio; Atelier 17; and, Academie de la Grande Chaumiere all in Paris, France.

Exhibitions
  • 1959 Egan Gallery, NYC;
  • 1961 Egan Gallery, NYC;
  • 1971 and 1972 Cordier & Ekstrom, NYC;
  • 1988 Garth Clark Gallery, NYC;
  • 1990 Baruch College, NYC;
  • 1990 Retrospective Twining Gallery, NYC;
  • 1991 Perimeter Gallery.
  • 1995 25th Anniversary Exhibition Greenwich House Pottery - Jane Harstook Gallery, NYC;
  • 1995 The Nude in Clay - Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL;
  • 1996 Artists' Artists - Studio School Museau, NYC;
  • 1996 The Nude in Clay - Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI;
  • 1996 The Magical Art of Construction - Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL;
  • 1997 Susan Teller Gallery, NYC;
  • 1997 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL;
  • 1998 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL;
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References
  1. McGill, Douglas. "Margaret Israel, 57, an artist". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  2. Koplos, Janet and Bruce Metcalf (2010). Makers: A History of American Studio Craft. Hendersonville, NC: University of North Carolina Press, Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design. pp. 234. ISBN 978-0-8078-3413-8.
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