Bold and colorful abstract expressionist painting by American artist and educator, Boyer Gonzales Jr.

Boyer Gonzales Jr., (1909-1987), was born in Texas, and was immediately immersed in art.

His father, Boyer Gonzales Sr. was raised in a prominent American merchant family and was able to travel the world, working for his father.  He later became a marine painter, and built a studio in Woodstock, NY.

Woodstock became an artists colony around this same time, and young Boyer Jr. was surrounded by art and artists as he grew up.

  Boyer Jr. received a B.S. in architecture from the University of Virginia in 1931, then spent 4 years studying painting in Woodstock, under Henry Lee McFee, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Charles Rosen, and Eugene Speicher.  During this time he was introduced to painting styles developed by Paul Cézanne, and he began to paint abstractions based on nature.

  In 1935 he participated in the Fourteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, and went on to show his works at prestigious venues across the United States.

  Gonzales moved in 1937 to San Antonio, where he and Henry Lee McFee established the Museum School of Art through the Witte Museum. Gonzales taught there until 1939, when he accepted a faculty position in the art department at the University of Texas in Austin. He continued to build his reputation, exhibiting at the Corcoran Gallery (1939), the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco (1939), and the New York World’s Fair (1939).

 From 1942 to 1946 he served in the United States Army Air Corps. After his discharge he returned to Austin and his teaching position at the university, but in 1954 he accepted a position as director of the School of Art at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.  He retired as professor emeritus in 1979.

 Boyer Jr. was a member of many prominent art associations, and exhibited hsi works across the US.   His works are held in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and others.

This work is titled ‘Cornet’.

Dated 1960.

Oil on stretched canvas

It measures 38 x 46 inches sight size, and 39.25 x 47.25 x 1.75 inches overall, including the framing.

Excellent condition.

Signed and dated by the artist lower right.

 

Price  $7500

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