Maija Peeples-Bright

Rare Untitled Self Portrait by Maija Peeples Bright

2019

mixed media on paper image size: 17 X 25 framed size: 28 X 34 Provenance- Originally purchased from the Candy Store. It is from the Cherie and Ron Petersen collection and exhibited in 1989 in an exhibition "Collectors Choice, Drawings Paintings and Prints from the collection of Cherie and Ron Petersen". Bio- Born in Benicia, California in 1930, Robert Arneson was encouraged by his father to draw. He became a proficient draftsman early in life and drew cartoons for a local newspaper as a teenager. After Arneson studied art education at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland he taught in a local high school, where he became interested in ceramics. He went on to receive an MFA from Mills College in 1958. Arneson became head of the ceramics department at the University of California at Davis in 1962 and became a full professor of art in 1973. Arneson was greatly influenced by the expressionist work of fellow Californian Peter Voulkos, who had studied Pablo Picasso’s works...

Gladys Nilsson A Small Error (INV# NP3714) watercolor on paper Approx: 5 x 5.12" Frame: 10.12 x 10.12" 1987 Annotated on mat verso with title, artist...

Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is included in numerous private and museum collections, among them the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, and the UB Anderson Gallery (all of which are located in Western New York...

RYSZARD MARIAN OWCZAREK (born in 1946) He studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of prof. Tadeusz Dominik and prof. Stefan Gierkowski. He was assistant in the studio of lithography of prof. Józef Pakulski and prof. M. Rojewski. Between 1975 and 1979 he was a member of "Symplex S - 4" group along with artists such as Andrzej Bąkowski, Marian Czapla, Maja Gumińska, Janina Kowalewska-Tarkowska, Piotr Szemiński...