1. Hugh Mesibov was an American abstract expressionist artist who began his career as a federal artist for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression and later became a member of the 10th Street galleries and part of the New York School during the 1940s-60s.
Hugh Mesibov's work has elements of the mid-20th-century New York artistic experience such as Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist and figurative aspects across several media such as watercolor, oil, and acrylic as well as etchings, lithographs and monoprints.
Hugh Mesibov's work has received a global reputation and is included in many collections in the United States and worldwide.
Hugh Mesibov began his studies at the Samuel S Fleisher Art Memorial School, then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at the Barnes Foundation.
Hugh Mesibov worked in the WPA Graphic Arts Workshop in Philadelphia alongside Roswell Weidner, Dox Thrash and Michael Gallagher.
Hugh Mesibov was close with Richard Pousette-Dart, Franz Kline and Ibram Lassaw.
Hugh Mesibov formed professional relationships with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko.
Hugh Mesibov was dedicated to landscape painting during this period and made visits to various sites for painting.
In 1972, Hugh Mesibov was commissioned to paint a mural for the Temple Beth El in Spring Valley, New York, which was composed of three combined canvases each measuring 6 by 16 feet.
Hugh Mesibov's work is well known in Rockland County, New York, where he lived from 1959, and his reputation as an American artist is not confined only to the New York metropolitan area, but stretches from his birthplace of Philadelphia across the United States of America, and around the world.
Hugh Mesibov retired in 1989 and became Professor Emeritus in 1993.
Hugh Mesibov's works are part of the permanent or temporary collections of the following institutions:.