George Baer, American, 1895-1971, Solid Comfort, o/b, signed lower right, graphite titled verso. Biography:
George Baer was born in Chicago. He attended the Chicago Art Institute, and after graduation, he and his brother, Martin officially opened the Holbein Studios, later known as the Anarchist Studios. The studio closed in 1921, and the Baer brothers went to Munich, Germany attending the Academy and studying with M. Heymann.
In 1924 they went to Paris, and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. They met many important artists including Picasso, Soutine and Kremin. Until 1940, they were based in Paris while taking extended trips to Algeria, Spain, England, Belgium and Holland. They spent two years on the outskirts of the Sahara Desert in North Africa. The Baer brothers George and Martin found the Algerians as much to their artistic liking as Gauguin found the Tahitians. They looked upon them with a lively, leavening curiosity, and transferred them quivering to their canvases the dancing girls, swaying to barbaric music; the camel drivers, ready to start for their long journeys across the Sahara; street vendors, beggars, women of the African demi-monde.
George had in the 1930?s having fled the Nazi invasion had moved to back to America to New Milford, CT. He taught Creative Design and Lettering in 1931 and 32 at the New York School of Applied Arts and Design for Women. In 1946 he settled in Litchfield County, Connecticut , opening an art school in Salisbury,Connecticut at the Scoville Memorial Library from 1933-38 where he taught painting, life drawing, watercolor, etching, pencil and all applied arts. Baer had instructed art to notable author Clyde Brion Davis and Thomas B.Costain. George was an art instructor at the Salisbury School for 21 years. George has a piece titled ?Masouba? at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
(ALMA10102)(MM)
Measurements: 16 x 22, framed 20 x 26
Condition: Good
Property Title: From a Northeastern Collector

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