New and recent work by this celebrated Philadelphia artist whose signature murals and 3-dimensional constructs—abstract, joyful, and colorful—enhance communal spaces around the globe. Maitin’s silkscreen prints, paintings, and sculptures are in museums from New York to London, as well as on Penn’s campus.

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SAM MAITIN, 1928 - 2004

Sam Maitin’s art works, celebrative and colorful, have had a visual impact on Philadelphia , a city he loved and enriched with an array of art forms: paintings, printmaking, posters, banners, dimensional murals, and metal indoor and outdoor sculptures. His public art works include the 70-foot dimensional mural commissioned for the lobby of the Annenberg School of Communications there, the 35-foot dimensional mural in the lobby of the Wood Building at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia , the murals in the Christian Association, and banners created for the Wharton School . Other works enliven spaces in the region including the Temple University Dental School , Abington Hospital Memorial Chapel, and Adath Jeshurun Synagogue in Jenkintown. In December 2004, Maitin was working on a large dimensional interactive mural for the new home of Philadelphia ’s Please Touch Museum ; a large project of site-specific art works for a clubhouse and recreational facilities for the Enclaves in South Philadelphia was completed in January, 2005. His colorful sculpture, “Joyce,” stands on the campus of George Washington University ; a large tapestry mural hangs in a public building in Shanghai .

Awarded a scholarship to the Philadelphia School of Art, now the University of the Arts, Sam Maitin concurrently earned a BA from the University of Pennsylvania . In 1968 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to spend a year in London working at the Curwen Art Studio. He has exhibited in England , France , Israel , and Japan , and across the United States ; his paintings, prints, and sculptures are in private and corporate collections and in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art , the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the Tate Gallery in London , and the Klingspor Museum in Germany . An invited guest lecturer and instructor at Brevard College in North Carolina , Kent Art College in Canterbury , and Camberwell College of Art in England , he was a mentor in the arts for gifted students for the American Psychological Association’s Pinnacle Project and participated in programs at Skidmore and Williams. Throughout his career he enjoyed meeting and teaching young people and working with his student assistants, a long list of devoted alumni.