Rose Kuper - New York Plein Air Oil on Canvas - Boats at their Mooring Dated 1930 P3235

Ms. Kuper's early work rarely comes available and this piece from a private Pasadena collection shows off her impressionist skills. Signed and dated. Professionally cleaned and reframed with a hand carved wooden surround sympathetic to the period plein air style. Art measures 18 3/8" x 21 3/4". Frame 23 1/2 x 27 1/2 Noted for her strong abstract compositions and particular skill with colors, Rose Kuper used many media, ranging from oil paintings, watercolors, etchings, lithographs, collages, monoprints, crayon impressions, ink and others. Her style ranged from realist in the beginning through abstract impressionism. Her most original contribution has been the use of printers' ink on the reverse of glass, culminating in a solo show at the Corning Museum of Glass, New York. Born October 9, 1888, in Riga Latvia, Rose Kuper moved at the age of six months with her family to London, where she lived until the age of 5, when they came to New York City. She became primarily a New York City arti