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Roderick Slater - Mixed Media (Painting & Collage-Assemblage) Artist, Born 1937 Every once in awhile, you should leave your blog to the experts:  Wikipedia.  They did such a great job describing Slater and his artistic background, I am going to leave part of this blog to them:   Roderick Slater is an American artist born in Goodrich, Michigan in 1937. He studied art at the National Academy of Design School of Art in NYC . His works include paintings , etchings , drypoints , and collagraphs and collages and he is best known for mixed media works combining painting and collage . Slater’s collages, composed on rectilinear grids , often include three-dimensional components and fragments of antique paper.   So let’s interrupt Wikipedia to look at an example of Slater’s work:   “ Somewhere Between Two Days. ”   Acrylic Paint and Collage Approximately 30 X 40 Inches Framed The mixed media base is newspaper, around the edg...

C. Murray Foster - Artist, born 1919 C. Murray Foster (1919-1994) Artist "The Work Yard" Oil on Canvas Approximately 26 X 20 Inches From Foster's MacDougal Street Studio Foster's Monogram Signature A "F" inside a Circle with a Tie on Top Original Wood Frame Charles Murray Foster is one of the great mystery men of the artworld.  A talented remarkable man. He recently made the news again by having one of military letters published by the New York Historical Society (Nov. 2015).  Foster was deployed to northern France in 1944.  This recently published letter to a friend included sketches and written graphic details of the French landscape and people.   After the war, Foster found his way back to New York, where he attended the Art Students League.  He was a student of Reginald Marsh, Kenneth H. Miller, Julian Levi and John Carroll.  In 1947, Foster was the winner of the McDowell Fellowship at the League, as...

Taylor Oughton PAINTER, PRINTMAKER White  Chrysanthemums Approximately 23 X 18 - oil on masonite  Originally exhibited at:  The Hanging Shop, Peddler's Village Lahaska, PA  1969  Taylor Oughton Signature Example Linen Mat with gold painted frame.  Taylor Oughton PAINTER, PRINTMAKER Taylor Oughton is a an award winning painter and illustrator. He became an illustrator by trade, and built his reputation on his commissions.  Oughton's subject matter varies, but nature and wildlife are his primary interests. For more than 40 years, he has illustrated magazines and books. His work has been featured in publications including: Reader's Digest, Field and Stream, Holiday, Sports Afield, Outdoor Life, Cosmopolitan and the Saturday Evening Post. Oughton has also designed at the Franklin Mint and for the Lenox Collectibles. His nature illustrations can be found in the Boy Scout handb...

Alois "Al" Mauser, Artist 1922 - 2014 Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Maine Oil on Canvas - 24 x 18 Inches with a simple white wooden f rame Signature Example - Alois Mauser 11 - 96 Originally Exhibited and Shown by:  Channel 21 - PBS Auction  Valued at $300.00 Alois “Al” Mauser The late Alois Mauser spent his early school years in Brooklyn, where he was born. His teachers encouraged his interest in drawing. One teacher in particular gave him a drawing pad. Later, he and his sister, now orphans, moved with their foster parent, to a farm in upstate rural New York. Again teachers in middle and high school encouraged him, but he took no formal training at that time. He worked in pen or pencil on sketches of local scenes or doing school related art work. He painted in oil on canvas and occasionally on glass. During those years he was also a regular participant in the farm chores of family neighbors. After graduating from Fult...