Arnold Mesches (1923 – 2016) was a painter and political activist who was born in the Bronx to an orthodox Jewish family. His extensive body of work has been featured in over 125 solo exhibitions and can be found in both private collections and the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery, the Burchfield Penney Art Center, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, among other institutions. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs.
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Arnold Mesches
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From loose pages to issue 119 of our magazine, an anthology of over 100 HLP poets, over a decade of the Loose Award for translated works, the Founders prize for first book in its third year, and a bunch of great books in the works, we couldn’t have come this far without you.