HAND SIGNED AND NUMBERED LITHOGRAPH WITH INTAGLIO. CUSTOM FRAMED IN GOLD AND DOUBLE MATTED.

Amram Ebgi was born in Morocco in 1939. He immigrated to Israel in 1951 and lived in Kfar Blum, a small kibbutz run by an American and English coalition. There Ebgi worked with the community, was educated in Torah, and learned Hebrew and English.

Ebgi began drawing and painting at age 16, for his own pleasure. Ebgi was "discovered" while working in the kibbutz and in 1958 received a scholarship to study art at Brooklyn Museum of Art. In 1962 kibbutz administrators, recognizing his talent, gave him a painting studio and encouraged him to sell his works. Ebgi stopped creating his art to fight in the Israeli Six Day War. When he returned to the kibbutz after the war, administrators gave him a full time assignment of painting, and they began to market his work from a commercial showroom outside the kibbutz. Ebgi continued art study at Pratt Graphic Art Center in New York, where he developed a love for the printmaking; etching, silk screen, intaglio, relief, and epoxy modeling.

In 1981 Ebgi relocated to Miami Florida where, until recently, he worked in his own studio. Ebgi no longer creates art, however some of his late and most recent work is still available to collectors in the primary and secondary art market place. Throughout his active career as a Professional artist Ebgi enjoyed one man shows throughout USA; Israel; Nova Terra, Columbia; International Exhibitions in Panama; and International Art Expos in New York, California, and Washington D.C.. Ebgi enjoyed teaching positions as Art Department Head at Tel-Chai Institute Israel, UJA Federation and as Professor of Art at the Corcoran School of Art Washington D.C.. He was honored with an assortment of international art prizes including the Magen David award from Ehud Olmert, Mayor of Jerusalem for his creation of works for the Jerusalem 3000 Celebration; recognition for the official poster for Israel's 40 year anniversary; and was honored with awards from UNICEF. In addition be being collected internationally by private art lovers, Ebgi's work is collected by and exhibited in public institutions and museums including: Yale University; Duke University; Vassar College; U.C.L.A.; New York University; Florida International University; Princeton University; Beit Hashoah-Museum of Tolerance, California; Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Florida; Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama; Canton Art Institute, Ohio; Salt Lake City Art Center, Utah; Del Rio Art Center, Texas; Laguna Beach Museum, California; and Arkansas Art Center, Arkansas. Other acknowledgments include: Art Business News,"Festival of Masters" Disney World Florida, Salute to Israel presented to Vice President George Bush on the occasion of Israel's 40 year Anniversary, and gifts made by Elizabeth Taylor and Chaim Topol to institutions in the USA and Europe.