Muldoon elder biography for kids

Muldoon Elder is well known as the founder of The Vorpal Gallery, which for more than four decades was a leader introducing and building the careers of artists who were relatively unknown.

He operated venues in both San Francisco and New York, and two of the discoveries he brought to America became household names in the art world, ranking among the greatest printmakers of the 20^th century. M.C. Escher [1898–1972] was a master of the woodblock print and stone lithographics whose surreal images of tessellated hyperbolic geometry continue to command fascination.

Yozo Hamaguchi [1909–2000] is widely recognized as the greatest master of the mezzotint with his superbly delicate still life images.

In 1961 Muldoon was an impecunious painter who left behind a cabin in the mountains north of Los Angeles and made the move to San Francisco.

There, on a dare he opened The Vorpal Gallery, which became a vital part of the Bay Area art scene for the next 42 years. From the be