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Louis Demott Bunce

Louis Demott Bunce (1907 - 1983) was active/lived in Oregon, Wyoming.  Louis Bunce is known for Modernist painting, surreal views, birds, non objective, prints.

Louis Bunce, a major painter and printmaker beginning in the 1930s, is considered a legend in Oregon modernism.  Known for variations on Surrealism in the 1930s and 1940s, nature-based adaptations of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s, and geometric compositions related to Minimalism in the 1970s, he created a body of work that resonates with international modernism.  He influenced many artists in the Pacific Northwest, including those who studied with him at the Museum Art School (now Pacific Northwest College of Art), where he taught from 1946 to 1972.

Louis Demott Bunce was born in Lander, Wyoming, in 1907 and moved with his family to Portland in 1920.  He studied at the Museum Art School in 1925-1926, where he became friends with fellow student William Givler.  Both enrolled at the Art Students League in New York; Bunce studied there from 1927 to 1931.

In Oregon, Bunce worked with the Public Works of Art Project in Portland in 1934 and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4335 characters.]  Artist bio

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