Marvin Israel (July 3, 1924 – May 7, 1984) was an American artist, photographer, painter, teacher and art director from New York City known for modern/surreal interiors, abstract imagery.

[1] Israel created sinister shadowy and exuberant interiors with implications of violence that were often sexual in nature.

In 1950, Israel was a graduate student at Syracuse University and spent two years in Paris studying and painting.

From 1961 to 1963 he was art director for Harper's Bazaar where he featured Richard Avedon, along with artists such as Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Larry Rivers, Andy Warhol and established masters such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans.

In May 1984 while in Dallas, Texas, working on Richard Avedon's exhibition, "In the American West," he had a heart attack and died.