Jean Xceron – Exhibited oil painting – 1949 Jean Xceron – ‘Variations No. 329’ – 1949 Jean Xceron, (1890-1967), is heralded as a pioneer of non-objective painting by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and Xceron was a wildly successful American modernist artist during his lifetime. Xceron was a Greek-born American artist and writer. He…
Emil Bisttram – Thunderbird Emil Bisttram watercolor. Emil Bisttram, (1895-1976), was a leading modernist painter in the American Southwest who created iconic abstract paintings and influenced and continues to influence young American artists. Bisttram studied in New York at the National Academy of Design, Cooper Union, and the Art Students League before traveling to Mexico…
Basil Marros Circa 1930s abstract oil painting. Basil Marros, (1897-1954), was of Greek born artist who moved from his home country to the United States where he settled in San Francisco, CA in 1916. In 1921 Marros accepted a scholarship at the Art Students League in New York City. In 1924 Marros departed for Paris to…
Bateba, (Lobi for – carved wooden figure), are anthropomorphic effigies created and used by the Lobi peoples of Western Africa as intermediaries to the spirits who watch over them. The Lobi are a small part, (less than 200,000 en masse), of an ethnic group of people originating from today’s Ghana that now occupy parts of…
Peter Camfferman – 1930s Abstract forest scene by Pacific Northwest modernist Peter Marienus Camfferman. Peter Camfferman, 1890-1957, was born in The Hague, Holland, and emigrated to the US at a young age. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Art where he met his future wife, Margaret Gove Camfferman. Peter and Margaret traveled, created…
Seymour Franks -1945 Abstracted cityscape of New York City from 1945 by American artist Seymour Franks. Seymour Franks, 1916-1981, was born in New York City in 1916. At the age of 16, Franks was stricken with polio. He went on to work for the WPA and later studied at the National Academy of Design in…
Oronzo Gasparo – 1940 Interior of a home in 1940 by Oronzo Gasparo. Oronzo Vito Gasparo, 1903-1969, was an Italian-born American modernist painter. Gasparo studied, worked, and exhibited in New York in the 1930s and 1940s and was highly influenced by his mentor and teacher, Preston Dickinson. Gasparo exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art…
John Hansegger – 1930s 1930s abstract oil painting by John Hansegger. John Hansegger, aka Hans Egger, John Konstantin Egger, 1908-1989, was a Swiss-born modernist painter. Hansegger was educated in Europe and had his first one-man show in Switzerland in 1928. He later joined the Kunstler-Vereinigung in Munich, Germany in 1933 where he participated in several…
Bateba – Lobi Peoples Bateba – Ti Puo aka Duntundara, (dangerous bateba), with one outstretched arm. Bateba can have a wide range of purposes. This bateba, a Ti Puo or Duntundara, (dangerous bateba), identified by his outstretched arm, was made to protect the owner from harmful forces, disease, and/or witchcraft. Click here to learn…
Bateba – Lobi Peoples Bateba – Ti Puo aka Duntundara, (dangerous bateba), with outstretched arms. Bateba can have a wide range of purposes. This bateba, a Ti Puo or Duntundara, (dangerous bateba), identified by his outstretched arms, was made to protect the owner from harmful forces, disease, and/or witchcraft. It has been told that Christian…
