Oil Painting of Seated Nude, 1970 Pink overall field Marion Maas (New York, 20th/21st century) Untitled (seated nude), 1970 Oil painting on canvas Signed and dated to lower right Artist information inscribed to verso Provenance From the artist’s estate. Condition – significant hair accretions to surface; minor mold accretion to right of head; examined with UV light. Dimensions 30.25″ W x 24.25″ H x 1.0″ D Modernist Marion Elizabeth Maas is a painter and printmaker whose subjects include landscapes, still lifes, and figural paintings. She works in a range of styles, some of which resemble Cubism, and some of which recall Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne and Fauvist Henri Matisse. Raised in Queens, Maas studied at a number of institutions including the Pratt Institute, New York University, and the Art Students League in New York. She began exhibiting her work regularly in the 1970s but it was in the 1980s that she gained positive recognition. Critics have compared her work to John Marin, Willem de Kooning, and Wassily Kandinsky among other renowned Modernists. Throughout her career, Maas’ work has been exhibited and collected by numerous institutions including the Queens Museum of Art, the Ridgewood Art Institute, the Salmagundi Club, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, and the Islip Art Museum among many others. Not long after her career and work were featured in an article in the Queens Chronicle, Maas retired in 2014. Condition – wear to the edges. Dimensions 15.0″ W x 20.5″ H x 0.1″ D This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. MARION ELIZABETH MAAS (b. February 27, 1930) A.K.A. “Marion E. Maas” Landscape, figurative and still life painter in oil and watercolor, printmaker. Maas was born and raised in Rego Park, Queens, Long Island, New York. She attended Newtown High School, where she met her future husband, George B. Maas (1930 – 2006), a photographer who spent his career documenting the activities of the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Ballet. Marion Maas studied art at the following institutions: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; New York University, New York, NY; The Art Students Lea
Oil Painting of Seated Nude, 1970 Pink overall field Marion Maas (New York, 20th/21st century) Untitled (seated nude), 1970 Oil painting on canvas Signed and dated to lower right Artist information inscribed to verso Provenance From the artist’s estate. Condition – significant hair accretions to surface; minor mold accretion to right of head; examined with UV light. Dimensions 30.25″ W x 24.25″ H x 1.0″ D Modernist Marion Elizabeth Maas is a painter and printmaker whose subjects include landscapes, still lifes, and figural paintings. She works in a range of styles, some of which resemble Cubism, and some of which recall Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne and Fauvist Henri Matisse. Raised in Queens, Maas studied at a number of institutions including the Pratt Institute, New York University, and the Art Students League in New York. She began exhibiting her work regularly in the 1970s but it was in the 1980s that she gained positive recognition. Critics have compared her work to John Marin, Willem de Kooning, and Wassily Kandinsky among other renowned Modernists. Throughout her career, Maas’ work has been exhibited and collected by numerous institutions including the Queens Museum of Art, the Ridgewood Art Institute, the Salmagundi Club, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, and the Islip Art Museum among many others. Not long after her career and work were featured in an article in the Queens Chronicle, Maas retired in 2014. Condition – wear to the edges. Dimensions 15.0″ W x 20.5″ H x 0.1″ D This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. MARION ELIZABETH MAAS (b. February 27, 1930) A.K.A. “Marion E. Maas” Landscape, figurative and still life painter in oil and watercolor, printmaker. Maas was born and raised in Rego Park, Queens, Long Island, New York. She attended Newtown High School, where she met her future husband, George B. Maas (1930 – 2006), a photographer who spent his career documenting the activities of the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Ballet. Marion Maas studied art at the following institutions: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; New York University, New York, NY; The Art Students Lea
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