George Marinko (Connecticut, NY, 1908 - 1989) Abstract oil/board. Signed lower right. Sight size: 8.5 x 11.5 inches. Marinko had studied at the Waterbury Art School with Lewis York from 1925 to 1929 and took additional training at the Yale University School of Fine Art with Eugene Savage. He began his career as a painter of traditional landscapes, but from 1934-42, painted in the Surrealist manner. Then frustrated with the lack of response to his surrealism, he incorporated regionalist landscape painting into his output, but continued to paint abstract works. He exhibited extensively early in his career at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.