Art Rosenbaum Wife: Who Is Margo Newmark Rosenbaum?

Margo Newmark Rosenbaum was the wife of Arthur Spark Rosenbaum, an American art professor emeritus at the University of Georgia, an artist, musician, and folklorist.

Much is not known about Margo. However, Rosenbaum travelled with her around the United States for over 50 years, recording blues music, fiddle tunes, and other forms of traditional music.

Selections of Rosenbaum’s recordings were published as The Art of Field Recording: 50 Years of Traditional American Music.

In 2008, Rosenbaum won a Grammy award for Best Historical Album, for his music collection Art Of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years Of Traditional American Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum.

Rosenbaum was norn in Ogdensburg, upstate New York and he studied at Columbia University, after which he taught at the University of Georgia from 1976 to 2006.

The Georgia Museum of Art later held an exhibition of his drawings and paintings.

During childhood, Rosenbaum’s family moved around the United States spending time in Indianapolis and elsewhere, while his father was a member of the Army Medical Corps.