Carl W. Illig (1910 - 1987) Oil on Canvas, Signed Lower Left, Measures ( 10 x 14 inches) w/frame (13.5 x 16.5 inches) Carl Illig was born in 1910 in East Aurora, New York. He studied under Arthur Kowalski and was a student and colleague of Emile Gruppe during summers spent in Gloucester. Best known for Western New York landscapes and Gloucester harbor scenes, he did work that carried on a long tradition of Western New York landscape painters and recalls Carl Peters, Gruppe and others. In the late 1950s, he was involved in the restoration of murals by Alexis Fournier at the Roycroft Campus (East Aurora, NY). Illig was a member of The Buffalo Society of Artists.

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