Ogden Minton Pleissner (1905 - 1983) was active/lived in Vermont, New York. Ogden Pleissner is known for Fishing-hunting genre and landscape painting.

Medium: Watercolor on paper
Size: 15" x 22"
Frame Size: 25" x 32"
Condition: Great, No Blemishes
Signature: Lower right

An avid hunter and fisherman, Ogden Pleissner applied his gifts as an artist in the realist tradition of Eakins and Homer to the depiction of the sporting life, creating some of the finest shooting and fishing scenes of the twentieth century.

Born and raised in Brooklyn in 1905, Pleissner was a city boy who studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan. As a teen, however, he spent summers at a boys' camp in Dubois, Wyoming, where he frequently sketched and painted the magnificent scenery that surrounded him. His experiences in the West instilled a life-long love of the outdoors and influenced his career in the direction of landscape painting, particularly as a backdrop for sporting scenes. He brought to these landscapes a fine sense of composition, superb draftsmanship, an exacting eye for detail, and the masterful use of color. He also possessed an uncanny ability to capture the human body in action, a skill that was well suited for images of the "gentlemen's pursuits" to which he himself was devoted. Because he knew first-hand the proper techniques for shooting and fly fishing, he was singularly gifted at capturing the excitement and tension of the sporting moment—the bird just flushed, the trout just hooked.

Pleissner produced prints at the peak of his career for Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, Inc. The nonprofit angling organization was founded to promote catch-and-release fly fishing and sound conservation practices for streams and rivers. Given the organization's investment in the preservation of fly-fishing standards, the choice of Pleissner to create their inaugural image was meaningful. Here was an artist who understood the nuances of the sport. With his artistic sensitivity to weather, time of year, and light, he was able to locate the sportsman in a setting not only of great natural beauty but also with such realism that the image can call forth in any angler a memory of the best fishing day he ever had.


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private collection from Upstate New York

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