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  Peter Svenson, “Triangle Painting”, Oil on canvas 1976

  PETER SVENSON (b. 1944)

   “Triangle Painting” 1976

  Oil on Canvas

  Signed: Peter Svenson 1976, Turkey Shoot (on the stretcher) and canvas on verso.

  H: 41 ½” x W: 48”

  Nationally recognized artist and writer Peter Svenson was born in 1944 and received a bachelor of arts degree from Tufts University and a masters of fine arts in painting from the University of North Carolina.

  Svenson created “Turkey Shoot” in 1976 based on color field painting theories. The triangular shaped canvas is unusual in this style of painting, the lines are precise, the paint is thinly laid on the primed canvas in flat primary and secondary colors. “During the late 1950s and 1960s, color field painters emerged in Great Britain, Canada, Washington, DC and the West Coast of the United States using formats of stripes, targets, simple geometric patterns and references to landscape imagery and to nature.” Some of the artists of the Washington Color School included Gene Davis, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and Sam Gilliam.

  Peter Svenson’s work relates to this group of Washington color field artists working in the style in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

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  Reinhold Klaus / Carl Geyling Atelier Vienna “Cubist Man with top hat and flowers” stained glass window c. 1930

  REINHOLD KLAUS (1881-1963) Vienna, Austria

  CARL GEYLING ATELIER (founded 1841) Vienna, Austria

  Man with tophat and flowers   c. 1930

  Window of stained and hand-painted leaded glass

  Provenance: Estate of Carl Geyling (1814-1880), Vienna

  H: 17 3/4″ x W: 14 1/2″

  Reinhold Klaus studied from 1898-1902 with Alfred Roller at the Kaiserlich-Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna. In 1914 Klaus married into the Carl Geyling family and became extensively involved with with stained glass painting. As early as 1918 Klaus worked on a stained glass window for the Siegestempel am Bisamberg in Vienna. In 1934 he became a professor of stained glass painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule, as well as creative director of the C. Geylings Erben glass painting company. Reinhold Klaus, a member of the Künstlerhaus since 1924 received many prizes and honors. He worked on commissions for the St. Veits cathedral in Prague, the St. Stephan cathedral in Vienna and many others.