Beautiful Robert Ormerod Preusser oil masonite. 36 x 21 inches. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1919 - 1992. From Texas, Robert Preusser was an Abstract Expressionist* painter, preferring mixed media*, and also was an art educator. He said that his "constant aim in painting is that of making evident an emotional expression and bringing it into a revealed tangible form through a combined intellectual and intuitive approach". (Herskovic 270)Pruesser was born in Houston and studied there with Ola McNeill Davidson; in Chicago at the Chicago School of Design; and with Laszlo Maholy-Nagy and Robert Wolff; the Newcomb School of Art in New Orleans; and the Art Center School* in Los Angeles.During World War II, Robert Preusser served from 1942 to 1945 in the US Army's 84th Engineer Camouflage Battalion in North Africa, Germany, Italy and France.

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