By Charles Schucker
Located in New York, NY
Charles Schucker (American, 1908-1998)
Untitled, 20th Century
Oil on canvas
34 1/2 x 29 in.
The following is based on information sent by T Buckley of New York City. Buckley sent copies of the artist's obituaries from the "Pratt Folio," Spring 1998 and the "New York Times,"January 26, 1998.
Charles Schucker, a pioneer American painter and Professor Emeritus of Pratt Institute School of Art and Design, was a second-generation Abstract Expressionist.
He was born in Gap, Pennsylvania in 1908 and attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, graduating with honors in 1933. After winning a scholarship for a trip to Europe, he settled in Chicago where he worked for the Works Progress Administration and had his first solo exhibition at the Benjamin Krohn Gallery in 1940.
In 1946, he moved to Brooklyn Heights, New York, teaching at New York University City College and from 1956 to 1985, the Pratt Institute. In New York, his style became increasingly abstract. He combined elements of Jackson Pollack's gestural techniques and pouring paint...
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20th Century Abstract Charles Schucker Paintings