Amazing Cameron Booth oil canvas. 42 x 28 inches. Provenance: private owner. Biography: 1892 - 1980. A painter of American landscapes and an art teacher in New York City and Minneapolis, Cameron Booth painted in both realist or post-impressionist styles as and abstract styles including Cubism. Late in his career he adopted Abstract Expressionism including gestural techniques. Many of his realist paintings of rural Minnesota make him part of the American Scene movement with his depictions of iron mining towns, struggling farmers, Indian reservations and other hard-living conditions is Minnesota during the 1930s.He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and studied at the Art Students League of Chicago, with Andre L'hote in Paris, and Hans Hofmann in Munich. From 1944 to 1948 and 1948 to 1954, he taught at The Art Students League in New York City and from 1948 to 1960 at the Minneapolis School of art, which became the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.While a student in Chicago, he attended the Armory Show of 1913, which introduced avant-garde styles from Europe to America. Booth became interested in Picasso, Cezanne and Braque and stayed in Europe after serving in World War I.

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