Background
Morris Edward Kriensky was born on July 27, 1917, in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom to the family of Barnet Kriensky and Jennie Canopate. The family moved to the United States in 1922 and he became a naturalized citizen in 1927.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Morris Kriensky studied at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in 1936-1940.
(The Way Is Peace, The Road Is Love contains art and poetr...)
The Way Is Peace, The Road Is Love contains art and poetry by Kriensky. He has spent many years in patient probing deep within his spirit for the core of absolute truth, the expression of which makes the true artist. His art is a complete harmony of the Oriental and Western ways, and his poetry has a simplicity, strength and directness of meaning that reaches through to man's inmost thoughts and emotions.
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1972
illustrator painter printmaker sculptor
Morris Edward Kriensky was born on July 27, 1917, in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom to the family of Barnet Kriensky and Jennie Canopate. The family moved to the United States in 1922 and he became a naturalized citizen in 1927.
Morris Kriensky studied at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in 1936 - 1940. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York in 1948-1949 and the Escuela de Tecnica in Mexico in 1950-1951.
Morris Kriensky joined the Army Air Force in 1941 and was assigned to General Chennault's command in China, where he was put in charge of a phototechnical unit whose mission was to provide accurate bombing and target information for the 14th Air Force.
Kriensky's unit took aerial photographs by the hundreds of thousands, and his task was to keep track of them and identify enemy targets. He carried out further mapping assignments in Japan, Taiwan, and Okinawa before returning to civilian life in 1945 with a Bronze Star and the War Memorial Decoration of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Morris Kriensky started a painter career after the war. He worked in watercolor, oils, and pen and ink, producing landscape and portrait works that have been exhibited at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Knoedler Gallery in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the White House, and several other sites. He was also the owner and painter of “Cards for All Seasons,” a series of greeting cards advancing pacifist ideals.
Kriensky was the author of "The Way Is Peace... The Road Is Love" (1973), a volume of drawings, paintings and poems, and "Visions of Art and Life" (1976), which also blended paintings and poetry.
Morris Kriensky died on February 8, 1998, at Beth Israel North Hospital in Manhattan.
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1972Morris Kriensky had a daughter Shoshana Katz.