William Bishop Owen Jr – Abstraction William bishop Owen Jr, (1895-1963), was an American painter and educator. William Bishop Owen Jr was born near Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Chicago and enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1914. Later he attended and graduated from the Arts Students League in New York…
Rudolph Gessley – Exhibited Oil Painting Rudolph Gessley, (1852-1941), was an artist and treasurer of John Robinson’s Circus. Gessley was enrolled in the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1932, around the time that this work was exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum’s annual show. I discovered and purchased this painting many years ago from an…
Balcomb Greene – Figurative Abstract Balcomb (John Wesley) Greene, (1904-1990), was an American abstract painter based in New York. Greene is known as an artist that bucked current trends in favor of his own interpretations of what art should be. During his career Greene worked in two different painting styles: In the 1930s, when Green…
Wally Strautin – Abstract Oil Painting Valleja (Wally) Strautin (American, 1898-1995), was Latvian born American abstract artist who lived and worked in New York city. Strautin studied painting at the Cooper Union School of Art, where she graduated in 1931. Her work was greatly influenced by her friends, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, who were…
Wally Strautin – 1940s Abstract Needlepoint 1940s abstraction in needlepoint by Wally Strautin. Valleja (Wally) Strautin (American, 1898-1995), was Latvian born American abstract artist who lived and worked in New York city. Strautin studied painting at the Cooper Union School of Art, where she graduated in 1931. Her work was greatly influenced by her friends,…
Theodore Nadejen – Two Young Woman at Leisure Theodore Nadejen, (1889-1974), was a Russian born American artist and illustrator. Nadejen was born sometime in 1889. At the age of 13 he ran away from home and found work as a deckhand, working on ships. Eventually Nadejen joined the Russian Imperial Volunteer Navy where he became…
Theodore Nadejen – Young Woman in Tropical Dress Theodore Nadejen, (1889-1974), was a Russian born American artist and illustrator. Nadejen was born sometime in 1889. At the age of 13 he ran away from home and found work as a deckhand, working on ships. Eventually Nadejen joined the Russian Imperial Volunteer Navy where he became…
James McCray – Geometric Abstraction James McCray, (1912- 1993), was a California painter and art instructor who lived most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area. McCray studied at UC Cal Berkeley where he earned a Master in Fine Art degree, and continued his studies at the Barnes Foundation in Pennsylvania. McCray went…
Kazuo Matsubara – ‘Chapel Through the Trees’ 1927 Kazuo Matsubara, (1895-?), was a Japanese-American artist who lived and worked in California, Hawaii, and Japan. Matsubara exhibited wildly in California during his lifetime and his works are held in many public and private collections, including the Smithsonian. This rich, colorful oil painting is titled ‘Chapel Through…
William Georgenes – Abstraction Abstract oil painting by William Georgenes, dated 1953. William Georgenes, (1929-2017), was an abstract expressionist painter most of his life, and an assemblage artist in his later years. Born in Boston, MA in 1929 and began his art career as a child in a sanatorium, drawing comic books for the adult…
