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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 318

Sterling Strauser "Mrs. Savitsky's Flowers" Oil on Board

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Starting Bid
$1,800

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Signed and dated lower right. Titled on verso. 

Date: 1963

 

Image: 29" Tall x 23" Wide 

Frame: 36" Tall x 30" Wide 

 

Condition: The painting is in good condition. Minor wear and scuffs to the frame. 

 

Artist Bio: Sterling Strauser (1907-1995) was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and spent his life in East Stroudsburg, where he worked for decades in a local company while painting constantly. Largely self taught, he was drawn to art by the folk art collection at the Everhart Museum in Scranton, and his style moved from an early impressionism through a bold, Klee influenced modernism to the thick, jewel toned impasto of his mature work. The Russian Futurist David Burliuk became a friend and admirer, and Strauser exhibited in New York with dealers including Lee Nordness.

Strauser is equally remembered as a champion of self taught artists. With his wife Dorothy he discovered and promoted Justin McCarthy, Jack Savitsky, Victor Joseph Gatto and others, a group later known as the Strauser Circle, and their advocacy helped bring twentieth century American folk art into museums. Flowers in heavily worked paint were among his favorite subjects. "Mrs. Savitsky's Flowers," dated 1963, carries the name of Jack Savitsky, the coal miner turned painter who was among the artists he championed.

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