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Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was an American social realist painter.
Soyer married in 1922 to Ida Chassne, a dancer. Together they had one son, David Soyer. Dancers were a recurring subject in his paintings.
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. And later studying at the Ferrer Art School, where he studied under the Ashcan 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.
He was an artist of the Great Depression, and during 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. More on Moses Soyer
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