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Louis Schaff

Louis Lazare Schaff (1898 - 1982) was active/lived in Oregon.  Louis Schaff is known for Expressionist painting, genre, human activity.

LOUIS LAZARE SCHAFF  -  (American Artist, 1898-1982)
 
Schaff was born in New York, July 28, 1898.  His early art studies were at the Art Students League in that city, during the late 1920s and early 1930s.  He began to exhibit his work in the early 1930s at the Salons of America, Rockefeller Center, and other New York venues.  Schaff had ties to Oregon early as 1923 when he climbed Mt. Hood.  He ultimately settled in Portland, Oregon in the 1940s.  While supporting himself selling life insurance, Schaff continued his painting, and studying art.  In 1956 he was accepted as an "Artist Member" of the Portland Art Museum through the Portland Art Association.  His work was exhibited a the Portland Art Museum and other locations during the 1950s.
 
With his roots in New York, and obvious exposure to the "Ashcan School", it is no surprise that Schaff was essentially a genre artist, a painter of common the person in ordinary   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2379 characters.]  Artist bio

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