Cameron Booth, American, 1892-1980, 1953. Minnesota, Midwest, New York City, Pennsylvania, Paris, Munich. Regionalist, abstract, Cubist, Abstract Expressionist, American Scene. Influences: Picasso, Cezanne, Braque.

Black and Blue is an oil on canvas that is signed and dated lower right as: Cameron Booth 53, titled on back stretcher. 29.75 x 25 in., 31 x 26.5 in. frame

Cameron Booth is considered a prominent Minnesota artist and an artist that reached an impressive national influence. Cameron Booth taught at the Art Students League in New York City, and at the Minneapolis School of Art. He was important to the local art scene, advocating modernist ideas and methods, and one of his students was James Rosenquist. Earlier he studied under Hans Hoffman and Andre LÕhote, absorbing modernism from his professors and from the Armory Show. His subject matter focused on the landscapes of Minnesota, principally farms. His interest in post-impressionist form elegantly progressed in depictions of familiar, beloved local lands. Booth revisited his interest in Cubism in 1953 when he created Black and Blue. The painting combines the dynamism of Cubist compositions with the rough, sweeping, gestural strokes characteristic of Abstract Expressionism.