Morton Dimondstein

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"PORTRAIT OF CHARLIE KELLER" ARTIST OIL ON PAPER C.1970 23 X 17.5 INCHES Morton Dimondstein 1920-2000 At the age of seventeen Morton Dimondstein enrolled in the American Artists School and then the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied painting, drawing, and printmaking with Anton Refregier, Harry Sternberg, and Kimon Nicolaides. After serving in the 387th Field Artillery Battalion during World War II, Dimondstein continued his studies at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. He was one of the first artists to produce serigraphic prints on the West Coast, marketing them as affordable art in galleries and retail stores. His prints and oil paintings garnered several awards during this post-war period, including an A.C.A. Gallery international competition for a one- man show in New York City. In 1951 he moved to Mexico, where he attended the Instituto Politécnico Nacional and studied art with José Gutiérrez and David Alfaro Siqueiros. During his three years in Mexico, Dimondstein worked as a staff artist and instructor in visual education for UNESCO and was a member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular. After moving back to Los Angeles, Dimondstein served as the art editor of the California Quarterly from 1953 to 1956. He briefly worked for the Saul Bass advertising firm where he designed books and book jackets, and collaborated on the ad campaigns for films such as William Wyler’s “The Big Country” and Otto Preminger’s “St. Joan.” Dimondstein received industry recognition for the images he created, but cranking out art for commercial ventures with strict deadlines was not for him. He chose to leave that world in favor of working as an independent artist and art teacher. Over the years he taught at the Kann Art Institute, the New School of Art, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and the School of Fine Art which he established with UCLA faculty member Martin Lubner...

RONALD AHLSTROM "ABSTRACT IN WITH TEXT" ACRYLIC AND COLLAGE ON CANVASBOARD, SIGNED AMERICAN. C.1970 18 X 24 INCHES Ronald Ahlström 1922-2012 Born in Chicago, Ronald Ahlström graduated from the School of the Art Institute, where he frequently exhibited his collages and paintings in the Chicago and Vicinity exhibits of the 1950s and 1960s. He also showed at Exhibition Momentum in the ’60s, and was selected for the Corcoran Biennial. Together with his colleagues and fellow-abstractionists Robert Nickle, Morris Barazani, Harry Bouras, George Kokines, and George Waite, he exhibited at McCormick Place in an independently produced survey of contemporary Chicagoans, circa 1962, under the banner 12 Chicago Artists. An adept and sensitive painter, Ahlström’s most personal work is as an abstract expressionist collage maker. Using strips of paper, sometimes weathered and beaten into rough hewn surfaces, he creates immaculately layered, lively, gestural compositions. Education: Art Institute of Chicago University of Chicago DePaul University Exhibitions: Art Institute of Chicago Annuals, 27 Corcoran Biennial in Washington DC, 12 Chicago Artists, 50 Chicago Artists European Exhibit at the US Information Agency, College and Construction, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Chicago Artist’s 1963, Tacoma Art Museum, Washington, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 50th Northwestern Annual, Seattle Art Museum, Chicago Invitational, University of Illinois, and many more. One Man Exhibits: Rockford College, Rockford Il. Barat College, Lake Forest Il. Rodger Wilson Gallery, Chicago, Il. Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY. Joseph Faulkner, Main Street Galleries, Chicago, Il. Zriny Galleries, Chicago Il. Awards: Clyde Carr Prize, Art Institute of Chicago William H. Bartels Prize, Art Institute of Chicago James Broadus Clark Prize, Art Institute of Chicago Alumni of Art Institute Prize Singer and Sons Prize, Navy Pier, Chicago Abel Fagan Prize, Festival of Fine Arts, Lake Forest, Il. Ford Foundation Purchase Prize, Seattle, Wa. Collections: Art Institute of Chicago Barat College Tacoma Art Museum, Wa. Phibrook Art Center, Tulsa, Ok. Blue-Cross Collection, Chicago, Il. Atlantic Richfield Collection Illinois Bell Telephone Collection Container Corporation of America Collection Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany Playboy Enterprises, Chicago, Il. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Art Collection 1st National Bank, Chicago And many private collections Publications: Who’s Who in America Who’s Who in American Art Who’s Who of Midwest Art...

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Acrylic on wood panel.