Juan -San Miguel Allende Watercolor 1948 11x7 - Mexico

Year1948

Hand SignedLower Left 

Condition Excellent 

Not FramedRolled in Tube 

Purchased fromArtist 2018 

Story / Additional InfoLasker painted this piece in 1948, while he was staying at San Miguel de Allende, Mexico,
where he used to visit often. He spent a few months residing in this location after the war and officially enrolled at the local art institute there as a student in order to collect the Gl Bill. 

Certificate of AuthenticityJoe Lasker 

LID170607

Joe Lasker - United States

NArt Brokerage: Joe Lasker American Artist: b. 1919-2015. Joseph Leon Lasker was born in New York in 1919 to Romanian immigrants. In high school, he entered the painting competition of the Treasury Department's Fine Art Section and won commissions for still-extant murals in the Calumet, MI, and Millbury, MA, post offices. At night, he studied at, and graduated from, Cooper Union art school. Joe Lasker was the last living member of the 48 prominent realists - including Edward Hopper, John Sloan and Raphael Soyer--who wrote for Reality, the mid-Fifties polemical journal that argued against non-representational art. "I feel that much of American art of the last 60 years has something missing, namely narrative," Lasker said in an interview. "Without narrative there would be little left of the art of the Old Masters, of 20th-century expressionism and surrealism. There would be no Guernica by Picasso." He illustrated and/or wrote children's books, including American Library Association Notable Books Merry Ever After (1976) and The Boy Who Loved Music (1979) for Viking Press. His prizes include Prix de Rome and Guggenheim Fellowships and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Academy of Design, where he was National Academician and secretary. Listings wanted.