Submitted By: seagate45@icloud.com – Click to email about this post
Listed Artist Louis Lazare Schaff (1898-1982) was born in New York.
He studied at the prestigious Art Students League, began to exhibit his works in the early 1930s at the Salons of America, Rockefeller Center, and other New York venues.
Schaff had ties to Oregon as early as 1923 when he climbed Mt. Hood.
He moved to Portland in the 1940s.
Louis Schaff was accepted as an “Artist Member” of the Portland Art Museum in 1956.
Louis Schaff is known for Expressionist painting, and painted human activities such as musical events, horse racing, Passover, trolleys, and a postman delivering mail.
He studied at the prestigious Art Students League, began to exhibit his works in the early 1930s at the Salons of America, Rockefeller Center, and other New York venues.
Schaff had ties to Oregon as early as 1923 when he climbed Mt. Hood.
He moved to Portland in the 1940s.
Louis Schaff was accepted as an “Artist Member” of the Portland Art Museum in 1956.
Louis Schaff is known for Expressionist painting, and painted human activities such as musical events, horse racing, Passover, trolleys, and a postman delivering mail.
This is an abstract oil on canvas board, musical recital, signed l/r “L. Schaff”, 20″ x 16″; lovely wood frame with gold liner; provenance on back marked #6035, Matthew’s Galleries, Lake Oswego
