Richard Crist – Abstraction Richard Crist, (1909-1985), was an American abstract artist working in Pennsylvania. Crist began his formal art education at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and continued his training at the Art Institute of Chicago. Crist moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania around 1940. His early work in New Hope bordered on Precisionism, but…
Joseph Stella – exhibited watercolor Joseph Stella, (1877-1946), was one of America’s foremost modernist painters in the early 2oth century. Stella was born in Italy in 1877. At the age of nineteen, he immigrated to New York City. In 1897 he studied at the Art Students League. The following year he enrolled in classes at…
Robert Kaess – Abstraction – 1959 Robert Kaess, (1923-1991), was an American abstract expressionist painter associated with the San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionist movement. Kaess studied at the University of California under Margaret Petersen, Erle Loran and John Haley, where he received his Bachelor in Faine art degree in 1948 and his Master in…
William Samuel Schwartz – Watercolor William Samuel Schwartz, (1896-1977(, was a Russian born American painter and printmaker. Schwartz studied at the Vilna Art School in Russia from 1908 to 1912. At the age or sixteen he immigrated to America where he enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago. To support himself, Schwartz worked waiting on…
Mabel Alvarez – Woman of Haiti Mabel Alvarez, (1891-1985), was born on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Alvarez moved with her family to California in 1906. In 1909 Alvarez’ artistic talents were recognized by her high school art teacher. Alvarez became acquainted with early American modernists working in Los Angeles and studied and worked with…
Ruth Wall – Abstraction Ruth Wall, (1917-2009), was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker who worked in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wall exhibited occasionally, but was more interested in the creative process than adulation who seemed to prefer working in her North Beach studio. Ruth Wall was born in Wyoming, later moving to…
Virginia Banks – Lobster Buoys Virginia Banks, (1920-1985), was an American abstract artist who lived in worked in Connecticut and Washington State. Banks earned a Bachelors degree from Smith College in 1941, and went on to earn a Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa before moving to Seattle in the mid-1950s. Banks…
Hildegarde Haas – Bach English Suite No. 2 in A minor, Courante Hildegarde Haas, (German/American 1926-2002), was an American abstract painter and printmaker who was born in Frankfurt, Germany. At the age of 11 her family moved to the United States, settling in Colorado Springs, Colorado. While living in Colorado Springs Haas studied art…
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…
