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Attr. JOSEPH MEIERHANS US Swiss 1890-1981 WC

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Attr. JOSEPH MEIERHANS US Swiss 1890-1981 WC
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Watercolor on paper. Mountain valley landscape scene. Signed and attributed to Joseph Meierhans (American, 1890-1980). 12.6 x 19.7 in. (32 x 50 cm). Joseph Meierhans is one of the most important modernist painters associated with Bucks County and the New Hope artists. His large body of work spans over five decades beginning with a representational Ashcan style and evolving into variations of modernism, including cubist, semi-abstract, abstract, and abstract-expressionist works. While spending all of his “painting time” in Pennsylvania, Meierhans made efforts to stay involved in the New York art scene. He exhibited in the 1940s and 1950s at the Artist’s Gallery in New York where he was the recipient of five one-man shows. Meierhans also joined the avant-garde group known as AAA (American Abstract Artists) exhibiting in New York from 1946-1957 and in as faraway places as Europe and Japan. He also exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Provincetown Art Association, American Federation of Artists Traveling Exchange, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Tokyo (1956), and the Crest Gallery, New Hope (solo 1958). PROVENANCE: Private Collection (Netherlands)