Untitled
Type:Painting
Year:1989
Medium:Oilstick
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Provenance Estate of the Artist Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles
Emerson S Woelffer ART FOR SALE
1914 Chicago, Illinois - 2003 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Abstract expressionist painting, lithography, collage and etching.
Best known for his boldly colored abstract oil and acrylic canvases with jagged forms in sometimes dense compositions Emerson Woelffler was active in this style until his later years when macular... Read full biography
Best known for his boldly colored abstract oil and acrylic canvases with jagged forms in sometimes dense compositions Emerson Woelffler was active in this style until his later years when macular degeneration made working in color difficult. He then began using white crayons on black paper in a... Read full biography
Best known for his boldly colored abstract oil and acrylic canvases with jagged forms in sometimes dense compositions Emerson Woelffler was active in this style until his later years when macular degeneration made working in color difficult. He then began using white crayons on black paper in a looser style. He was also a sculptor and lithographer and lived in both Chicago and Los Angeles. Emerson Woelffer was a native of Chicago where he worked at the Institute of Design under Moholy-Nagy, and... Read full biography
Best known for his boldly colored abstract oil and acrylic canvases with jagged forms in sometimes dense compositions Emerson Woelffler was active in this style until his later years when macular degeneration made working in color difficult. He then began using white crayons on black paper in a looser style. He was also a sculptor and lithographer and lived in both Chicago and Los Angeles. Emerson Woelffer was a native of Chicago where he worked at the Institute of Design under Moholy-Nagy, and earned a B.A. Degree and taught there in 1942. Later he was instrumental in bringing modernism to Los Angeles where he taught at the Chouinard Art Institute (now Cal Arts) from 1959 to 1973. He also taught at the Otis College of Art and Design until... Read full biography
Best known for his boldly colored abstract oil and acrylic canvases with jagged forms in sometimes dense compositions Emerson Woelffler was active in this style until his later years when macular degeneration made working in color difficult. He then began using white crayons on black paper in a looser style. He was also a sculptor and lithographer and lived in both Chicago and Los Angeles. Emerson Woelffer was a native of Chicago where he worked at the Institute of Design under Moholy-Nagy, and earned a B.A. Degree and taught there in 1942. Later he was instrumental in bringing modernism to Los Angeles where he taught at the Chouinard Art Institute (now Cal Arts) from 1959 to 1973. He also taught at the Otis College of Art and Design until 1989. Earlier he had been a teacher at Black Mountain College where he associated with Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell... Read full biography
Emerson S Woelffer - Art for Sale (3 available)
Untitled
Type:Painting
Year:circa 1951
Size:24.00" x 33.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Bar Maria Internationale
Type:Painting
Year:1959
Size:31.75" x 27.75"
Medium:Mixed Media
Signed:Verso
Notes:
Provenance: Estate of Dr. Paul and Mary Wescher (Director J. Paul Getty Museum 1953-1959), Los Angeles, CA. Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM