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…
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…
Richard Harold Redvers Taylor – Industrial Scene with Staircase British modernist watercolor by Richard Harold Redvers Taylor. R. H. Redvers Taylor, (1900-1975?), was a British modernist who became a successful artist in London after serving his country in WWII. Just after the war Taylor dedicated himself to becoming an artist. Within a few years Taylor…
Richard Harold Redvers Taylor – Industrial Scene British modernist watercolor by Richard Harold Redvers Taylor. R. H. Redvers Taylor, (1900-1975?), was a British modernist who became a successful artist in London after serving his country in WWII. Just after the war Taylor dedicated himself to becoming an artist. Within a few years Taylor gained the…
Boyer Gonzales – Large Abstract Large abstract oil painitng by Boyer Gonzales. Boyer Gonzales, (Washington, 1909-1987), was an American modern artist who worked in Texas, California, and Washington. Gonzales was born in Galveston, Texas, and raised there and Woodstock, New York. He studied at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia, in Roanoke, with…
Raymond Jonson – No. 11 – 1958 Raymond Jonson – No. 11 – 1958 Raymond Jonson, (1891-1982), was the leading artist in the American Southwest, at teh forefront of the non’objective art movement in America, and the co-founder of the Transedentalist Group based in Santa Fe, NM. Jonson’s works are held in public and private…
Richard Faralla – ‘The Letter’ – 1943 Richard Faralla – ‘The Letter’ – 1943 Richard Faralla, (1916-1996), was an American abstract painter and sculptor based in California for the entirety of his career as an artist. Faralla was born in Brooklin, NY and moved to Los Anglese in the 1930s. He moved to the San…
