Boyer Gonzales Jr. – 1950s-60s Abstract landscape 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 his father…
Oscar Chelimsky – 1954 Mixed media painting on heavy paper by Oscar Chelimsky. Oscar Chelimsky, 1923-2010, was an American-born painter that spent the prime of his painting career in Paris, France. Chelimsky studied at Cooper Union in New York, the Art Students League in New York from 1939 to 1943, and the Hans Hofmann School…
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 1940 still life painting 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. He worked for the WPA during the great depression and…
Robert Breer – c.1960 Abstract oil painting on canvas by Robert Breer. Robert Carlton Breer, 1926-2011, was an American avant-garde painter and filmmaker. Breer was born in Detroit, Michigan. He moved to California in the 1940s and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University. Breer then sailed to France where he studied and…
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…
Janet Scudder – ‘Dominatrix’ – 1935 Large oil painting on canvas by Janet Scudder, titled ‘Dominatrix’ – 1935 Janet Scudder, 1869-1940, was an American sculptor and painter from Terre Haute, Indiana, who is best known for her award-winning sculptures, many of which are held in public and private collections around the world. Scudder received her…
Carl Morris – 1978 Abstract expressionist oil on canvas by Carl Morris. Carl Morris was a prominent figure in the art scene in Portland, Oregon, and his works are held in many public and private collections. Morris was born in California, and studied there and abroad, in Paris and Vienna before returning to the US,…
Philip Evergood – 1940 Philip Evergood oil painting of young female art students studying their craft while male workers ogle and gawk from a distance. Philip Howard (Blashki) Evergood was one of the leading American modernists of the 20th century. He was born in New York City and was raised in London, England where he…
