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Mort Ostrer (1932-2014) was an American born artist that primarily used a mixed media of collages, where Mort incorporated paint and images from personal family albums and periodicals. Morton Ostrer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1932 (back of a painting) and died in 2014.

Mort worked in Provincetown a number of summers in the early 60s and his work appeared in the Provincetown Art Society show for a number of years. He spent some time in Europe. Mort's work was sold in the Hamptons as late as 1982.

Many of Mort's works depicted geographic locations in an abstract form. Mort often used vibrant contrasting colors in the painted backgrounds and photographs and pictures form magazines to create a 3D artwork.