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Museums page for Sterling Strauser ((1907 - 1995)), known for Landscape, still life, illustrator. Showing 4 museum collections and exhibitions.
Sterling Strauser MUSEUMS
1907 Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania - 1995 East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Known for: Landscape, still life, illustrator.
Sterling Strauser was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania and became a painter in expressionist/impressionist styles who used a heavy impasto technique. He began painting in 1926 in a near impressionist... Read full biography
Sterling Strauser was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania and became a painter in expressionist/impressionist styles who used a heavy impasto technique. He began painting in 1926 in a near impressionist style that later evolved into an assertive Klee-like modernism. Still later his style softened into... Read full biography
Sterling Strauser was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania and became a painter in expressionist/impressionist styles who used a heavy impasto technique. He began painting in 1926 in a near impressionist style that later evolved into an assertive Klee-like modernism. Still later his style softened into what one collector, Jim Sittig, of his work termed "romantic American expressionism." He was also an illustrator for "Mademoiselle" magazine and "Unicorn-A Magazine of Poetry". Fellow artist, Russian... Read full biography
Sterling Strauser was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania and became a painter in expressionist/impressionist styles who used a heavy impasto technique. He began painting in 1926 in a near impressionist style that later evolved into an assertive Klee-like modernism. Still later his style softened into what one collector, Jim Sittig, of his work termed "romantic American expressionism." He was also an illustrator for "Mademoiselle" magazine and "Unicorn-A Magazine of Poetry". Fellow artist, Russian David Burliuk, a member of the Blaue Reiter group in Munich, 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.". With his wife,... Read full biography
Sterling Strauser was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania and became a painter in expressionist/impressionist styles who used a heavy impasto technique. He began painting in 1926 in a near impressionist style that later evolved into an assertive Klee-like modernism. Still later his style softened into what one collector, Jim Sittig, of his work termed "romantic American expressionism." He was also an illustrator for "Mademoiselle" magazine and "Unicorn-A Magazine of Poetry". Fellow artist, Russian David Burliuk, a member of the Blaue Reiter group in Munich, 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.". With his wife, Dorothy, he was a collector and promoter of folk art, and for many years was a teacher, office manager, and supervisor o... Read full biography
Sterling Strauser - Artist Info
About Sterling Strauser: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (4)
All MuseumsEverhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art
1901 Mulberry Street
Nay Aug Park
Scranton, PA 18510-2390Lehigh University Art Galleries
420 East Packer Avenue
Zoellner Arts Center
Bethlehem, PA 18015-3007Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
One Quinlan Street
Lynchburg, VA 24503-1526