Robert Stephen Moskowitz (June 20, 1935 – March 24, 2024) was an American contemporary painter who was influenced by, among other movements, Abstract Expressionism, and gained recognition in the 1960s onward for his paintings, drawings, and prints that work in the intersection between Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Pop Art.
In 1948, Robert Moskowitz, son of Louis and Lily Moskowitz, who a owned dry cleaning business,[2] was left to care for their youngest daughter, Karen, after his father left the family and his mother was forced to make occasional trips to Florida for work.
He showed little artistic capability as a child, but enrolled after school at the Mechanics Institute of Manhattan to pursue engineering drafting.
Moskowitz traveled to Europe in 1959, where he met the British collage and assemblage artist Gwyther Irwin.
Following lessons taken from Johns, Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp, Moskowitz began to place intact objects, such as the window shade, directly on his paintings as a form of collage.