Erni Cabat Sold at Auction Prices

Painter

Ernest Cabat (July 7, 1914 – November 9, 1994) was an American artist.

Cabat studied art formally in New York in the 1920 and early 1930s, before starting a decades-long career in advertising, ceramics and painting. He worked in Manhattan for a number of significant advertising firms and industrial design studios, before moving to Tucson, Arizona, in 1942. In Arizona, he and Norval Gill established the Cabat-Gill Advertising Agency.

The firm's work created and influenced the regional and charming mid-century brand of Arizona and the southwest. The firm developed and managed travel and marketing campaigns throughout Arizona and New Mexico. In addition to his professional design work, Cabat was a sculptor, ceramicist and painter who won numerous awards and whose work is housed in various museums and private collections throughout the United States.

Through his advertising firm he influenced the graphic aspects of southwestern advertising including TV, radio, newspaper, magazines and marketing ephemera. His ceramic works were characteristic of the post WW-II modern era utilizing shapes colors and forms that have become synonymous with the mid-century modern movement. Towards the end of his career Cabat wrote and illustrated numerous publications and books on southwestern themes.

Marriage: Cabat was married to Rose Cabat, a significant and influential mid-century ceramic artist.

Death: Ernest Cabat died at age 80 on November 9, 1994, in Tucson, Arizona.

He was survived by his wife, their three children, and extended family.