ARTIST: Sterling Boyd Strauser (Pennsylvania, 1907 - 1995) NAME: Abstract Composition - Lying Nude in Black Stockings MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 24 x 24 inches / 60 x 60 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed SIGNATURE: unsigned but comes from important collection of Sterling Strauser works, New Jersey. CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 117603 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Sterling Strauser was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania and became a painter in expressionst/impressionist styles who used a heavy impasto technique. He began painting in 1926 in a near impressionist style that later evolved into an assertive Klee-like modernism. Still later his style softened into what one collector, Jim Sittig, of his work termed "romantic American expressionism." He was also an illustrator for "Mademoiselle" magazine and "Unicorn-A Magazine of Poetry". Fellow artist, Russian David Burliuk, a member of the Blaue Reiter group in Munich, said of Strauser: "It is amazing to find a self-taught artist in a quaint little provincial village painting like the masters in the great art centers of the world." With his wife, Dorothy, he was a collector and promoter of folk art, and for many years was a teacher, office manager, and supervisor of the boiler works at the Pocono, Pennsylvania public schools. Many of his sketching trips were into the Pocono Mountains. In 1996, a retrospective show was held at the Lyzon Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee. An exhibition of his work, "A Modernist Revisited," was held at the Reading Public Museum in PennsylvaniaNov. 27, 1999-Feb. 27, 2000.