Stock # A2990 - Alexander Minewski Original Signed Painting
Painting is in excellent condition.
Very minor paint loss. Some canvas wear.
Painting is approximately 24.0" wide x 16.0" high
Unframed.
Includes catalog from his March 18 - April 6, 1979 solo show at
the College Art Gallery, State University College, New Paltz, N.Y.
About the Artist
Alexander Minewski (1917-1979)
Birth place: Detroit, MI Died: Kingston, NY
Addresses: NYC/Monhegan Island, ME (summers)
Profession: Painter, sculpture
Studied at the Art Students League with Ernest Fiene, Jean Charlot and George Grosz;
Colorado Springs FAC with Boardman Robinson; and Grande Chaumière, Paris; Hans Hofmann Sch. FA.
Exhibitions include Audubon Artists, 1947-48; PAFA Ann., 1949; Butler Inst. Am. Art, 1957; Columbia Mus. Art, 1957; NAD; Michigan Artists, 1937-39, 1945-47; Nat. Soc. Painters in Casein, 1955, 1956; Detroit, 1946 (solo); Contemp. Art Gal., 1947; Washington Irving Gal., 1957; New Paltz, 1979 (retrospective).
Awards: Prizes, Ball State Teachers College, 1956 (Purchase, NY); Michigan Artists, 1938 (Purchase, NY).
Member: Woodstock AA
Minewski left home at fourteen, joined a circus, and later worked as a sign painter and a logger,
all the time pursuing his art interests.
While recovering from wounds suffered in World War II (Burma, fighting with Merrill's Marauders),
he began studying with Hans Hofmann. Minewski's early works are realistic.
His later works could be characterized as expressionist realism.
In 1966 he was appointed professor of art at State University of New York at New Paltz.
Painting locations include Monhegan Island, Maine.
He was married to artist Natalie Minewski.