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Karl Fortess
"Beach Landscape" Karl Fortess, WPA, Dramatic, Cloudy Sky, Beach, Dunes

circa 1930s

$3,000
£2,243.24
€2,619.97
CA$4,215
A$4,269.57
CHF 2,451.50
MX$51,767.24
NOK 28,446.49
SEK 28,955.25
DKK 19,587.06

About the Item

Karl Fortess Beach Landscape Signed lower left Oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches Karl Fortess was born in Belgium, moving United States and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League and the Woodstock School of painting under Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Fortess is associated with the Woodstock School artists and was a member of the Woodstock Art Association. During the Great Depression, he worked in WPA art projects. From the early 1930s through the 1950s, Fortess exhibited nationally at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Woodstock Art Association, the Boston Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the Salons of America, and the Carnegie Institute. In 1946, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Childe Hassam Fund purchase award in 1952. Karl Fortess also taught at the Art Students League, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Louisiana State University and Boston University’s School of Fine and Applied Arts. He is listed in Who was Who in American Art, and his work is in the permanent collections of many United States Museums, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.
  • Creator:
    Karl Fortess (1907 - 1993)
  • Creation Year:
    circa 1930s
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 10.5 in (26.67 cm)Width: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)
  • More Editions & Sizes:
    Unique workPrice: $3,000
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1841217169632

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