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Bio
Martin H. Israel was a high school math teacher who turned antiques dealer in mid-career. He organized and taught one of the very first high school computer programming courses back in the early 60's, when computers still had vacuum tubes. As an antiques dealer, he specialized in Japanese decorative arts.
His favorite modern artists include M.C. Escher, Kasimir Malevitch, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Leger, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Chuck Close, who have all influenced him, or, at the very least, informed his sensibilities. Nowadays, he makes art exclusively by means of computer, which enables and blends perfectly with his abilities, sensibilities and proclivities.
He is married, with one daughter, three stepsons, and an autocratic cat.
Webpages
Contours by MH Israel
artgonia.com/artists/gimpelthe…Utopia Parkway by MH Israel
artgonia.com/artists/gimpelthe…Elysian Fields by MH Israel
artgonia.com/artists/gimpelthe…Bagatelles by MH Israel
artgonia.com/artists/gimpelthe…Bibelots by MH Israel
artgonia.com/artists/gimpelthe…Indiscretions by MH Israel
artgonia.com/artists/gimpelthe…Tessellations by MH Israel
artgonia.com/artists/gimpelthe…Current Residence: Flushing, NY
Personal Quote: "If I had my life to live over, I would make the same mistakes, only sooner. -Tallulah Bankhead