Arthur Osver

mohowald
Jul 8
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1912 (Chicago) - 2006 (St. Louis)

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“ I remember as a child peering out of our fifth-floor apartment window at the strange world of rooftops below: a world of strange shapes and sizes and colors…” - Arthur Osver

Osver settles into Greenwich Village in 1940 teaching at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and Columbia University.

In 1952 he is awarded the prestigious Prix de Rome and visits Italy and France numerous times during the decade - teaching at Yale University and the Copper Union in the late 1950s.

Osver and his wife Ernestine Betsberg settle in St. Louis in 1960 where he serves as Professor of Art at Washington University until 1981.

Best known for his early urban landscapes and his later colorful abstractions his works can be found internationally in museum, private and corporate collections.

MOH is pleased to offer this selection from the Arthur Osver Foundation with proceeds benefiting The Osver Scolarship Fund, School of Fine Arts, Washington University, Saint Louis.