By Erle Loran
Located in Surfside, FL
Mixed media on paper, each with estate of the artist label affixed verso.
Born: October 3, 1905, Minneapolis, MN Died: May 13, 1999, Berkeley, CA
Erle Loran was born in 1905 in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 3, 1905. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, Loran studied at the Minneapolis School of Art under direction of Cameron Booth. His talent was recognized early when in 1926, he won the Paris Prize of $6,000.00 offered by the John Armstrong Chaloner Foundation of New York City for travel and study which provided him the benefit of a traveling scholarship to Europe where he lived in the studio of Paul Cézanne. This exposure provided much influence to Loran's life, where he saw the works of Picasso and other mid century European modernists. Upon his return to the United States he published many articles on Cezanne.
Loran moved to Northern California in 1936 and in 1937 he began his long teaching career in the art department of the University of California Berkeley. Worth Ryder invited Loran to join the faculty in 1936. Loran became identified as a leading exponent of the “Berkeley School,” a term coined by a San Francisco critic. The work of the group reflected Cézanne's concepts but placed greater emphasis on linear and texture. Loran, together with his colleagues, Ryder, Margaret Peterson...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Erle Loran Abstract Paintings
