Two Knights Watercolor
Joe Lasker
Watercolor : Watercolour on Paper
Size : 8x15 in | 20x38 cm
- 🔥Watercolor - Inquire $2,600
Hand SignedLower Right and On Verso
Condition Excellent
Not FramedFlat
Purchased fromArtist 2020
Certificate of AuthenticityJoe Lasker
Additional InformationSigned Twice: Lower Right and On Verso
LID170963
Joe Lasker - United States
NArt Brokerage: Joe Lasker American Artist: b. 1919-2015. Joseph Leon Lasker was born in New York in 1919 to Romanian immigrants. In high school, he entered the painting competition of the Treasury Department's Fine Art Section and won commissions for still-extant murals in the Calumet, MI, and Millbury, MA, post offices. At night, he studied at, and graduated from, Cooper Union art school. Joe Lasker was the last living member of the 48 prominent realists - including Edward Hopper, John Sloan and Raphael Soyer--who wrote for Reality, the mid-Fifties polemical journal that argued against non-representational art. "I feel that much of American art of the last 60 years has something missing, namely narrative," Lasker said in an interview. "Without narrative there would be little left of the art of the Old Masters, of 20th-century expressionism and surrealism. There would be no Guernica by Picasso." He illustrated and/or wrote children's books, including American Library Association Notable Books Merry Ever After (1976) and The Boy Who Loved Music (1979) for Viking Press. His prizes include Prix de Rome and Guggenheim Fellowships and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Academy of Design, where he was National Academician and secretary. Listings wanted.