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Condition: Good. Saddle stitched catalogue. 8pp wiht b and w plates and 18 works described. LAMA BLOGEmerson Woelffer, Postwar Renaissance ManApril 26, 2016A self-described "abstract surrealist," the painter, collagist, and teacher Emerson Woelffer (1914-2003) was in many ways the very ideal of a postwar American artist. His distinctive style of Abstract Expressionism was inflected by his many and varied interests and experiences. He was a student at the Art Institute of Chicago before becoming employed in the WPA artist's program and then as a teacher at László Moholy-Nagy's Institute of Design in Chicago. Woelffer also lived and worked for a period in Mexico and in Italy; played jazz drums; and collected ethnographic art as well as cars. A close friend of Robert Motherwell and Buckminster Fuller, he was invited to teach at the storied Black Mountain College in North Carolina in 1949. Woelffer came to Los Angeles a decade later and, upon taking a position as an instructor at the Chouinard Art Institute, became mentor to an impressive roster of devoted students that included Larry Bell, Ed Ruscha, Joe Goode, and Charles Arnoldi.
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Emerson Woelffer Exhibition poster.
Published by Los Angeles: Paul Kantor Gallery. 1957., 1957
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Condition: Good. Silkscreen. 25.5 x 19 inches. Stains and repaired tears; mounted on a support sheet.LAMA BLOGEmerson Woelffer, Postwar Renaissance ManApril 26, 2016A self-described ?abstract surrealist,? the painter, collagist, and teacher Emerson Woelffer (1914?2003) was in many ways the very ideal of a postwar American artist. His distinctive style of Abstract Expressionism was inflected by his many and varied interests and experiences. He was a student at the Art Institute of Chicago before becoming employed in the WPA artist's program and then as a teacher at László Moholy-Nagy's Institute of Design in Chicago. Woelffer also lived and worked for a period in Mexico and in Italy; played jazz drums; and collected ethnographic art as well as cars. A close friend of Robert Motherwell and Buckminster Fuller, he was invited to teach at the storied Black Mountain College in North Carolina in 1949. Woelffer came to Los Angeles a decade later and, upon taking a position as an instructor at the Chouinard Art Institute, became mentor to an impressive roster of devoted students that included Larry Bell, Ed Ruscha, Joe Goode, and Charles Arnoldi.Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books. Berkeley.
