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Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 2, 1974) was an American Social realism painter.
Soyer married in 1922 to Ida Chassner, a dancer. Together they had one son, David Soyer. Dancers were a recurring subject in Soyer's paintings. Jewish Renaissance, October 2009, p. 43.
Soyer studied art in New York with his twin Raphael, first at Cooper Union, and continued his studied at National Academy of Design. He diverged from his twin and attended Educational Alliance. He later studied at the Ferrer Art School under the Ashcan School painters Robert Henri and George Bellows.
He had his first solo exhibition in 1926 and began teaching art the following year at the Contemporary Art School and The New School.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Moses and his brother Raphael engaged in Social Realism, demonstrating empathy with the struggles of the working class. In 1939, the twins worked together with the Works Project Administration, Federal Art Project (WPA-FAP) mural at the Kingsessing Station post office in Philadelphia.
Soyer wrote a weekly column for a Yiddish newspaper called "In the World of Art".
The Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection (Washington, DC), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City), the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth), the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery are among the institutions holding works by Moses Soyer. The untitled painting in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is an example of his intimate and psychologically penetrating portraits of ordinary people, for which he is best known.
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