Butler Institute of American Art
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Youngstown, OH 44502
Youngstown, OH 44502
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Museums page for Francis Criss ((1901 - 1973)), known for Precise urbanscape, genre, surreal. Showing 6 museum collections and exhibitions.
Francis Criss MUSEUMS
1901 London, England - 1973. Known for: Precise urbanscape, genre, surreal.
A painter known for his combining of precisionism and surrealism, Francis Criss was a student from 1917 to 1921 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later of Jan Matulka at the Art... Read full biography
A painter known for his combining of precisionism and surrealism, Francis Criss was a student from 1917 to 1921 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later of Jan Matulka at the Art Students League in New York. He received his first significant attention at the 1932 Whitney Museum's... Read full biography
A painter known for his combining of precisionism and surrealism, Francis Criss was a student from 1917 to 1921 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later of Jan Matulka at the Art Students League in New York. He received his first significant attention at the 1932 Whitney Museum's First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. In 1934, supported by Charles Sheeler, he earned a Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship and traveled to Europe, where he created... Read full biography
A painter known for his combining of precisionism and surrealism, Francis Criss was a student from 1917 to 1921 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later of Jan Matulka at the Art Students League in New York. He received his first significant attention at the 1932 Whitney Museum's First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. In 1934, supported by Charles Sheeler, he earned a Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship and traveled to Europe, where he created "Fascism," one of his best-known works. From 1935 to 1939, he was a teacher and muralist in New York for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration and was one of the artists who worked on the mural painting for the Williamsburg... Read full biography
A painter known for his combining of precisionism and surrealism, Francis Criss was a student from 1917 to 1921 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later of Jan Matulka at the Art Students League in New York. He received his first significant attention at the 1932 Whitney Museum's First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. In 1934, supported by Charles Sheeler, he earned a Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship and traveled to Europe, where he created "Fascism," one of his best-known works. From 1935 to 1939, he was a teacher and muralist in New York for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration and was one of the artists who worked on the mural painting for the Williamsburg Housing Project in Brooklyn. During the 1940s, he did much commercial illustration, and then returned to fine art in the 1950s and 60s, experimenting... Read full biography
Francis Criss - Artist Info
About Francis Criss: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (6)
All MuseumsNational Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The University of Arizona Museum of Art
1031 N. Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85721-0002Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014