Egg Tempera Landscape Paintings

"A Dancer's Fantasy" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modern Agnes Mills (1915 – 2008) A Dancer’s Fantasy 48 x 55 inches Tempera on masonite Signed “Aggie Mills’ lower right BIO Painter, printmaker, and sculptor Agnes Eunice Mills was born in New York City on April 2, 1915 to Herman and Celia Karlin. A prolific multi-disciplinary arts, she specialized in dance subjects and imagery pertaining to the arts. She worked in the Long Island/New York City area for most of her career, eventually moving to Florida. Mills was a graduate of Pratt Institute and Cooper Union Art School, and was associated with the Bauhaus, Social Realist, and Abstract movements. She worked for the WPA early in her career, becoming the youngest instructor in the Federal Arts Project along with fellow artist Ruth Gikow. She studied under Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, David Siqueiros, Hans Hoffman, Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 in New York, Krishna Reddy, and many other leading printmakers and painters of the time. For 25 years she served as resident artist for the Alwin Nikolais Dance Company, and several other dance companies hired her to sketch their rehearsals. She was a member of the Artists Union and was Co-Chair for the committee for public use of art. She published the Index of American Design for the Library of Congress. Solo Exhibitions: Lincoln Center Art Gallery, New York City: Drawings & Prints on the Dance; City Center Gallery, NYC: Drawings & Prints on the Dance; Alfredo Valente Gallery, NYC: Sculpture, Drawings & Prints; Carus Gallery, NYC: Oils, Drawings & Prints; Harbor Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, NY; Graphic Eye Co-op Gallery, Roslyn, NY; North Shore Community Arts Center, Great Neck, NY: Prints & Drawings on the Dance; Unitarian Society, Manhassett, NY: Sculpture, Drawings & Prints; North Truro Art...

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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1909, painter, illustrator and instructor Matthias Noheimer studied at the University of Cincinnati and the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Noheimer was a memb...