"JOSEF PRESSER, CONTE CRAYON DRAWINGMeasures: With out Frame: H-14in, W-11in With Frame: H-26in,W-24inPresser (1909-1967) moved from Russia to Boston, where he studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Later he moved to Philadelphia and set up a studio where his concern for the poor and socially deprived grew with urgency of the Great Depression. In 1940 he moved to NYC and married Agnes Hart. Both acquired summer studios in Woodstock, New York becoming members of the Maverick Artist Colony and Woodstock Artists Association. He spent his lat 3 years living and working in Paris. In 1965 he became an Honorary Member of Cercle Litte'raire et Artisque Bruxelles, Belgium. "

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