New York. 1891 - 1930
Modernist landscape, figure and still life painting, drawing
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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
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New York, Ohio / England. 1891 - 1948
Precisionist architectural views and still-life painting
New York, Ontario / Canada. 1906 - 1978
Structurescape, non-ob, marine painting
New York. 1906 - 1965
Geometric abstract painting, sculpture, murals
District Of Columbia, New York, Connecticut, North Carolina. 1889 - 1974
Abstract color painting, mural
New York / Germany. 1888 - 1963
Modernist, abstract painting, photography
New York. 1911 - 1988
Synthetic cubism, collage-music themes
New York, Connecticut. 1901 - 1973
Social surreal genre and abstraction painting
New York, Virginia. 1903 - 1988
African-American figure and genre painting
New York, Iowa. 1877 - 1963
Winter-urban view, genre, etcher
Pennsylvania. 1882 - 1952
Abstraction and figure painting, flower studies
New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts / France. 1884 - 1958
Figure, genre, carnival and interior painting
New York, Michigan / France. 1884 - 1930
Painting-landscape, cityscape, interiors
New York, Connecticut / Russian Federation. 1884 - 1983
Modernist genre, still life, landscape
New York, New Jersey / Hungary. 1886 - 1952
Figure-nude, still life and portrait painting
New York, Connecticut. 1898 - 1980
Figure-nude, portrait and still life painting
Massachusetts, New York / Germany. 1867 - 1938
Modernist architecture painting, landscape, colorist
Illinois, Michigan. 1887 - 1969
Non-objective painter, sculptor, architectural drawing
New York. 1904 - 1956
Collage, mod constructions, non ob painting
New York. 1907 - 1961
Cubist figure, still life, genre and birds paintings, design, sculpture
New York, New Jersey / Russian Federation. 1881 - 1957
Genre, landscape, figure, interior paintings
New York, Massachusetts. 1896 - 1969
Genre, landscape, still-life and mural painting
New York. 1892 - 1974
Geometric-biomorphic abstraction
New York / Russian Federation. 1894 - 1984
Shore landscape, figure, still life and portrait painting, printmaking
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland. 1902 - 1968
Cubist, non objective expression, collage
New York. 1867 - 1940
Urban-street genre, portrait painting
New York. 1874 - 1946
Abstract views, figure, portrait, mural
New Jersey. 1914 - 1970
Landscape, genre, portrait and figure painting
New York. 1882 - 1952
Mod figure-still life, non-ob
New York, California / Italy. 1862 - 1928
Painting-landscape-ethereal female figures
New York / Germany. 1894 - 1965
Landscape, portrait, genre, etching
New York / France, Russian Federation. 1881 - 1961
Cubist, futurist and fauvist painting-landscape, figure and still life