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Arnold Franz Brasz (July 19, 1888 – April 1, 1966) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker who was born in

Polk County, Wisconsin Polk County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 44,977. Its county seat is Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, Balsam Lake. The county was created in 185 ...

on July 19, 1888. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts and also with

Robert Henri Robert Henri (; June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher. As a young man, he studied in Paris, where he identified strongly with the Impressionists, and determined to lead an even more dramatic revolt against A ...

in New York. By the early 1920s, he was dividing his time between southern California and Wisconsin. He is considered a member of the

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, and his public commissions include ''Fruit Pickers'', a 1940 mural in the city hall of

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showing four Native American farm workers. Brasz died at his home in

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on April 1, 1966.

Auction record

The auction record for a painting by Arnold Franz Brasz is $31,070. This record was set by ''At the Big Top'', a 23 by 29.7 inch oil painting on canvas sold May 4, 2006 at Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers (

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).AskArt.com accessed Jan. 4, 2011

References

* Hughes, Edan, ''Artists in California 1786-1940, 2nd ed.'', San Francisco, Hughes Publishing, 1989, p. 67. * Shannon’s, ''Fine American and European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture'', Greenwich Connecticut, May 4, 2006, p. 87.

Footnotes

External links

Arnold Franz Brasz in AskART

Library of Congress
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brasz, Arnold Franz Students of Robert Henri 20th-century American painters American male painters Painters from California Artists from Wisconsin People from Polk County, Wisconsin 1888 births 1966 deaths 20th-century American male artists Federal Art Project artists