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Josef PresserExpressionist Profile Portrait
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- Creator:Josef Presser (1907-1967, American)
- Dimensions:Height: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)Width: 17.5 in (44.45 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU3822038363
Josef Presser
(From AskArt; Source: Frank S. Schwarz and Son, Philadelphia) Josef Presser was born in Lublin, Poland. He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, in Europe, and with Bryant Baker, Henry Hunt Clark, Philip Hale, and William James. He was a member of the Philadelphia Watercolor Club and the New Haven Paint and Clay Club and exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His work is in many museum collections, both here and abroad, including the Uffizi, Florence, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia. Source: Frank S. Schwarz and Son, Philadelphia
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