{"product_id":"sterling-strauser-1907-1995-an-actress-oil-on-panel-1985","title":"Sterling Strauser (1907–1995) \"An Actress,\" Oil on Panel, 1985","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"An Actress,\" an oil on panel portrait by Sterling Strauser, 1985. A pale, mask-like face with heavy-lidded eyes and red lips is framed by a blue-and-white hood, with tufts of blue and ochre hair falling across the forehead. The paint is thick and loose, scraped through in places to the blue below.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSigned and dated \"Strauser 85\" upper right. In a whitewashed wood frame with a hand-scored edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the artist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSterling Strauser was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania in 1907. He received his BA degree from Bloomsburg State College and began painting in 1926 in an impressionist style that would evolve into folk modernism. He married his high school sweetheart in June 1928. With his wife, Dorothy, he was a collector and promoter of folk art, and for many years was a teacher, office manager, and supervisor of the boiler works at the Pocono, Pennsylvania public schools. He painted in the evenings and on weekends until his retirement in 1962. The Zimbalist Gallery in New York had first shown his work in 1939 where many pieces were sold and the reviews were positive. Strauser went on to exhibit worldwide. His work is in the permanent collections of a number of museums and corporations. In 1996, a retrospective show was held at the Lyzon Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee. An exhibition of his work, \"A Modernist Revisited,\" was held at the Reading Public Museum in Pennsylvania in 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn good shape, with no flaking. The frame has a few light handling marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDimensions: 11.75\"L x 16.75\"H\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"33","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67603368968513,"sku":"33-750","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/6475\/9361\/files\/strauser-01-straight-on.jpg?v=1790834456","url":"https:\/\/thebluedoorsb.com\/products\/sterling-strauser-1907-1995-an-actress-oil-on-panel-1985","provider":"The Blue Door","version":"1.0","type":"link"}