STERLING STRAUSER: 20x24, Young Girl, Oil on Board,1962
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DESCRIPTION: Original oil painting on Masonite, signed "Strauser 4/28/62" on the upper right. PAINTING MEASUREMENTS: 20 in. x 24 in. CONDITION: This painting is in good condition. The colors are fresh and surface is sound. Please Note: Painting is framed. The frame condition is not guaranteed. There is some browning in the linen portion of the frame. ARTIST NOTES: (Sterling Boyd Strauser, American 1907 – 1995) …Art collector and gallery director, Oscar Salzer, used to say: “Strauser is second only to Redon." Strauser, whose German name is translated “one who binds the flowers,” was born in Bloomsburg, PA on August 15, 1907. His interest in art was kindled as a child by a gift of crayons from an aunt. Years later, Der Blaue Reiter artist, David Burliuk, said of Strauser, “It is amazing to find a self-taught artist in a quaint little provincial village painting like the masters in the great art centers of the world.” Sterling Strauser sent three small paintings to the 'Salons of America' show in Rockefeller Center, in 1934. Two of the works he admitted were selected. Strauser then contacted Marguerite Zimbalist about viewing his pieces for her gallery. Upon seeing his work, she agreed to give Strauser his own solo exhibition. This humble beginning started a series of events that would move Sterling Strauser's unique work into
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