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Revision as of 03:12, 9 October 2016
Ernest "Erni" Cabat | |
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| Born | Ernest Cabat 1914 |
| Died | November, 1994. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Art Students League, Mechanics (Art) Institute and Cooper Union Institute |
| Known for | Ceramics Industrial Design Graphic Design Painting Advertising |
| Movement | Modernism, Figurative Expressionism |
Ernest "Erni" Cabat (b. New York City, New York, 1914) was an American artist.
Cabat studied art formally in New York in the 1920 and early 1930s. Before starting a decades-long career in advertising, ceramics and painting . He worked in Manhattan for a number of significant advertising firms and industrial design studios before moving to Tucson, Arizona in 1942. In Southern Arizona he joined with Norval Gill to start Cabat-Gill Advertising Agency, the first advertising agency in Tucson. The firm's work created and influenced the regional and charming mid-century brand of Arizona and the southwest. The firm developed and managed travel and marketing campaigns throughout Arizona and New Mexico. In addition to his professional design work Cabat was a sculptor, ceramicist and painter who won numerous awards and whose work is housed in various museums and private collections throughout the United States[which?].
Life and work
Cabat's artistic prowess was in part his ability to blend national graphic design trends with regional iconography, southwest colors and illustration to create a visual idiom that captured the flavor of mid-centiry American southwest. Thorough his firm Cabat-Gill he influenced the graphic aspects of southwestern advertising including TV, radio, newspaper, magazines and marketing ephemera.
He ceramic works were characteristic of the post WW-II modern era utilizing shapes colors and forms that have become synonymous with the mid-century modern movement.
Towards the end of his career Cabat wrote and illustrated numerous publications and books on southwestern themes.
Cabat was married to Rose Cabat, a significant and influential mid-century ceramic artist. He died at the age of 80 in November 1994 in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona.[1]
References
- ^ "Artist `Erni' Cabat dies in his sleep". Tucson Citizendate=November 11, 1994.
- Advantage Points, 1952 - 1963