Irwin Rosenhouse Explained

Irwin J. Rosenhouse (1924-2002) was an American visual artist based in New York City.

Early life and education

Rosenhouse was born in Chicago in 1924. He served in the US Merchant Marine and later earned his BFA from Cooper Union.^[1]

Career

Rosenhouse's early career included work as a designer at the Museum of Modern Art^[2] and created illustrations for several publishing houses.^{[3] [4]}

He also taught at Pratt Graphic Center, Brooklyn College, and New York City Technical College.

Rosenhouse illustrated a number of children's books^{[5] [6]} including What Kind of Feet Does a Bear Have? (with text by future best-selling novelist Judith Rossner),^[7] Have You Seen Trees?^{[8] [9] [10]} and The Science Book of Magnets. He also illustrated The Coffee House Song Book.

He also created woodcuts for religious and history books,^[11] music scores for Paul Kapp's General Music Publishing Co,^[12] posters for The Arab-Israeli Peace Conference: The Road to Peace, 1989, and various record album covers^[13] for Folkways Records,^{[14] [15] [16]} MGM Records, Columbia Records,^[17] Paul Kapp's Serenus Records.^[18]

Rosenhouse's works have been shown at the Library of Congress, The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum,^[19] and the San Francisco Museum of Art. Additionally, his work is in permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution.^{[20] [21]}

Rosenhouse was the proprietor of the Rosenhouse Gallery in New York.^[22]

Awards include the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, two-time recipient of the Huntington-Hartford fellowship,^[23] Billboard Annual Award and 1st Prize in the Rome Collaborative.

Rosenhouse resided in Nassau County, New York.

An award is given in his name by the Society of American Graphic Artists.^{[24] [25]}

References

• Irwin Rosenhouse Bio, Show Poster, The Bowery Savings Bank, 1978.
• Poster: Irwin Rosenhouse: The Humanist Image, Paintings and Graphics, Toronto, Tungston Galleries, 1966.
• Marquis Who's Who: Irwin J Rosenhouse

Notes and References

1. http://cooper.edu/giving/supporters/donor-report/2010-donor-report/iho-imo "In Honor of/In Memory of"
2. Book: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Bulletin. 1967.
3. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317671391 "The coffee house songbook."
4. Book: The Publishers Weekly, Volume 160 No. 9. 1966. F. Leypoldt. page 58
5. Book: Young Children. 1967. National Association for the Education of Young Children.
6. Book: The Book Buyer's Guide. 1967.
7. Book: Bertha E. Mahony. The Horn Book Magazine. 1963. Bookshop for Boys and Girls.
8. Book: The New York Times Book Review. April 1967. New York Times Company.
9. Book: Science Books. 1967. American Association for the Advancement of Science..
10. Book: Science Education. 1969. W.G. Whitman. 179.
11. Book: William J. Chamberlin. Catalogue of English Bible Translations: A Classified Bibliography of Versions and Editions Including Books, Parts, and Old and New Testament Apocrypha and Apocryphal Books. 1 January 1991. ABC-CLIO. 978-0-313-28041-2. 182–.
12. Book: Russell, Robert . Places, Suite for Piano 4 Hands, Opus 9 . General Music Publishing Company . 1968 . New York, NY . Cover.
13. Book: Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. Billboard. 26 December 1964. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. 6–. 0006-2510.
14. http://www.folkways.si.edu/magazine-spring-summer-2012-look-listen-cover-art-folkways-records/music/article/smithsonian "The Look of the Listen: The Cover Art of Folkways Records"
15. Book: Anna Kearney Guigné. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute of Social and Economic Research. Folksongs and folk revival: the cultural politics of Kenneth Peacock's Songs of the Newfoundland outports. 2008. ISER, Institute of Social and Economic Research. 978-1-894725-06-4.
16. http://www.artspace.org.nz/exhibitions/2007/ronaldclyne.asp "Ronald Clyne: Folkways Records Cover Design"
17. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/40983340/ "Sexy, Sensational Cover"
18. Web site: Serenus Records Discography / For Sale . 2022-09-11 . www.justabuzz.com.
19. http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/796/community/posse/community/posse/ "Exhibitions: National Print Exhibition, 11th Biennial"
20. http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=rosenhouse%2C+irwin Rosenhouse, Irwin"
21. http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%2023/Rome%20NY%20Daily%20Sentinel/Rome%20NY%20Daily%20Sentinel%201965/Rome%20NY%20Daily%20Sentinel%201965%20-%200070.pdf "Library Displaying Rosenhouse's Works"
22. Book: Johnson Publishing Company. Jet. New York Beat. 5 March 1964. Johnson Publishing Company. 63–. 0021-5996.
23. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/44848918/(article about the dissolution of the Huntington Hatrtford artist colony)
24. http://www.sagaprints.org/media/SAGAzineFall2009.pdf "SAGA members exhibit"
25. http://hilo.hawaii.edu/news/kalono/documents/kalono_jan09.pdf "Hats off"