Sterling Boyd Strauser

Yellow Caboose #2 (Lackawanna Railroad Freight Train Steam engine painting)

1956

Sterling Strauser (1907-1995). Dorothy and Jasper, Crystal Street Station, 1970. Oil on masonite panel, 11.5 x 22.25 inches. Signed and dated lower right. Very good condition with no damage or conservation. Unframed. Framing services available. Image depicts the artist's wife, Dorothy Strauser, walking the beloved family cat, Jasper. In the background can be seen the East Stroudsburg Pa Train Depot on Crystal Street. Provenance: Estate of the artist's Granddaughter, Princeton NJ. Often called a romantic expressionist and American intimist, self-taught Pennsylvania artist Sterling Strauser (1907-1995) completed his first oil painting in 1922- inspired by frequent visits to the collection of American folk art at the Everhardt Museum in Scranton. Throughout the following seven decades of his career, Strauser’s artistic pursuit was based on his own intuition and determination to paint what he saw, rather than adhering to the conventional pictorial structures prescribed by prevailing styles at the time. Strauser rejected pretension, believing instead that art should work from life as it was lived. His oeuvre therefore serves as an extremely personal record of his observations and experiences from his lifetime painting in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Beginning early in his career, Strauser took his inspiration from American regionalists and traditional realists in the Ashcan style, as well as European movements such as Fauvism and Cubism, yet he eventually developed his own fluid realism based on subject matter beloved and familiar to him- family and friends, local landscapes and floral still lifes. Known for his distorted pictorial space, exaggerated with vivid color, heavy impasto and an intensity of emotion, Strauser was adept at altering and rearranging the details and aspects of any given form to create a new kind of beauty. "All a painting has to do, or a piece of sculpture, or whatever, is to entertain the critical eye. You have to have a fresh seeing eye… to look at things like a child, as if looking at the world for the first time (seeing) something that somebody else doesn’t see, something you want to identify with… Painting is largely a matter of evaluation. (It) doesn’t matter how much it looks like the subject matter. It just depends on how interesting you have made it so that it pleases the critical eye." STERLING STRAUSER, STERLING STRAUSER: A MODERNIST REVISTED, P. 23 Sterling exhibited his work extensively throughout the country and drew the attention of many notable fellow artists including Milton Avery, Louise Nevelson, David Burliuk, Chaim Gross and Red Grooms. Sterling was also extremely influential within the arts community of Pennsylvania through his discovery and promotion of self-taught American Folk artists such as Justin McCarthy, Jack Savitsky, Joseph Gatto...

Amazing Figurative Expressionism painting with exceptional color and movement. Oil on canvas, ca. 1960s. Measures 40 x 52 inches. Unsigned and unattributed. Excellent condition.

Beautiful abstract expressionist landscape by American artist, Morris Shulman (1912-1978). Untitled Landscape, 1958. Oil on masonite panel measures 24 x 36 inches. Signed and dated l...

A series of six abstract painting by American artist, Edward Pechmann Renouf (1906-1999). Oil on six individual masonite panels, each panel measures 16 x 24 inches. When assembled on...

Edward Pechmann Renouf (1906-1999). Oil on panel measures 16 x 24 inches. Signed lower margin. Excellent condition. Provenance: Allan Stone Projects, New York, NY. Biography: Bi...

Edward Pechmann Renouf (1906-1999). Oil on masonite panel, measures 16 x 24 inches. Excellent condition. Signed lower right. Provenance: Allan Stone Projects, New York, NY. Biography: Birth place: Hsiku, China Addresses: East St. Washington, CT Profession: Painter, sculptor Studied: Phillips Andover Acad., 1924; Harvard Univ., 1928; Columbia Univ., 1936-46; drawing & painting with Carlos Merida...

Small and colorful expressionist portrait of a clown by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "M. Blake" in the lower right corner. Dated "1969" ...

Signed lower right, 'R. Hornak' for Rosemary Hornak (American, born 1951); additionally signed verso, titled 'Perroquets Impasto, Variation 2' and dated 1992. Rosemary Hornak received her Bachelor in Fine Arts from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit in 1978. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and juried awards and has exhibited widely and with success, both at solo and group exhibitions including at Swann Galleries in Detroit and at the Macomb Center. Raised in an artistic family, Rosemary Hornak is the sister of the hyper-realist painter, Ian Hornak. Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2004 Eric I. Spoutz Gallery, Fisher Building...

"Gothic Window" is an original acrylic painting on masonite board by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece on the back. This painting depicts a geometric and abstracted renderin...

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Translated title: "We are in everything" Oil paint on canvas. It features a wooden frame and it can't be hung, since it is meant to lean against the wall.

Bettina Mauel expresses vitality and sensuality in her abstract and figurative paintings. “I paint what I experience,” she articulates. “This includes landscapes, dancers, and peop...