Expressionist Still Life
1948-49 Oil
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Richard Van Wingerden
This 1948-49 oil on canvas abstracted still life is by Dutch-Californian Expressionist Richard Van Wingerden (1893-1969). A WPA artist, Van Wingerden studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League in New York and with Benjamin Bufano and Spencer Macky at the Mary Hopkins Institute of San Francisco. Van was a political activist as a member of I.W.W. and the Debs party. In the 1960s, Van was part of the Sausalito Teahouse Group with Ross and Eileen Curtis in Marin. The group used an early 1900s Japanese Teahouse as a studio and exhibition space.
1948-49
Oil on Canvas
26"x30" unframed
Signed lower right. This painting was entered into the 69th Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1950.
This 1948-49 oil on canvas abstracted still life is by Dutch-Californian Expressionist Richard Van Wingerden (1893-1969). A WPA artist, Van Wingerden studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League in New York and with Benjamin Bufano and Spencer Macky at the Mary Hopkins Institute of San Francisco. Van was a political activist as a member of I.W.W. and the Debs party. In the 1960s, Van was part of the Sausalito Teahouse Group with Ross and Eileen Curtis in Marin. The group used an early 1900s Japanese Teahouse as a studio and exhibition space.
1948-49
Oil on Canvas
26"x30" unframed
Signed lower right. This painting was entered into the 69th Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1950.
