Word: pleissner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Objective Painter Adolph Gottlieb, Art Students League Director Stewart Klonis, Arts Publisher Jonathan Marshall, Old-Line Abstractionist George L. K. Morris, Realist Painter Ogden M. Pleissner and Sculptor William Zorach...
...Fashioned Virtues. Pleissner explains his own art in primer-simple terms: "I get a big kick out of nature, the moods and changes of the year and the weather. Effects of light have a great deal to do with the mood, so I make small (7 in. by 10 in.) watercolor sketches on the spot, before the light changes too much. The full-size painting I make afterwards in my studio. Drawing is very difficult for me-I don't know a thing about perspective-and I draw on tracing paper first so as not to mess...
Portraits of Places. As usual, advance-guard gallerygoers thought Pleissner's new efforts completely uninspiring and dismissed them as so many picture postcards. Just as predictably, conservatives found the pictures worthy of comparison with Winslow Homer's and bought them up fast. What the buyers got were neither picture postcards nor Winslow Homers, but portraits of places, seen in various kinds of weather and rendered with immense technical skill...
...Pleissner's artistic career was decided in 1916, when he was eleven and a friend gave him a paintbox "filled with all the colors in the world." After high school in his native Brooklyn, Pleissner spent four years studying figure painting and portraiture at Manhattan's Art Students League-and wishing he were out of doors. He has painted open-air pictures ever since. During World War II. Pleissner painted pictures of Aleutian bases for the Air Force and, later, of the Normandy breakthrough for LIFE, and developed the wanderlust that goads him today. Most of the watercolors...
...Pleissner's main strengths as a painter are the same that make him an able sportsman: patience and firmness. These old-fashioned virtues, combined with a lively feeling for landscape, have made Pleissner one of the nation's bestselling artists and won his work wall space in no less than 33 public collections. Pleissner may never mount Olympus, but he roams a respectable foothill...