About Ivan Summers

  • Biography

    The following is submitted by Cornelia C Moynihan, who writes that the information "is mostly condensed from the Introduction to the Ivan F Summers Retrospective Exhibition Catalog written by Allan J Kollar, Seattle 1989."

    IVAN SUMMERS, 1889-1964, was an important American Impressionist artist whose home was in Woodstock NY for most of his life, but his painting and teaching career included many extended stays on the east and west coasts, as well as the south, southwest and midwest.

    Born in Illinois, he studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts for four years beginning in 1910, and won three awards in the St Louis Art Guild Exhibitions 1914-1919 plus a prize in the Art Students League, NYC, in 1916.

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