Leon Wall Art
American, 1919-1980
Leon Wall is known for Abstract figurative. Born in Pittston, PA in 1916. He moved to New York City in 1933. From 1939 to 1940, he was a member of the research staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, concentrating on Persian Art and also lectured on art at the New York 1939 World's Fair.(Biography provided by Quintessential Things)
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Abstract Oil on Paper
By Leon Wall
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C. 20th Century - 1940's Abstract Oil on Paper Done by Leon Wall ( 1916 - 1980 )
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Camp Doriance
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Like many AbEx painters of his era, Wall first painted in a WPA, or Social Realist Style, but this changed in the mid-1950s and he gained early prominence as an Abstract Expressionis...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Leon Wall Art
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Oil
Untitled
By Leon Wall
Located in Lawrence, NY
Like many AbEx painters of his era, Wall first painted in a WPA, or Social Realist Style, but this changed in the mid-1950s and he gained early prominence as an Abstract Expressionis...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Leon Wall Art
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Oil
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