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Louis Schanker - Oils
1924 - 1981
A sampling-
 
...Schanker's is an art which is important in understanding the development of the 
second wave of american abstraction which culminated in Abstract Expressionism.
                                                                                  1981, Susan Fillin Yeh, art historian
 
 

Self Portrait, c1924, 18 X 24 in
 
 
Basketball Game, Prospect Park, 
Brooklyn, c1927-8,
24 X 30 in
 
   
 
Cyclone, Coney Island, 1933, 20 X 24 inAbstract Composition, 1933, 16 X 13 in 
   
 
Architectural Still Life, 29 X 36 inStill Life, 23  X 27 in 
   
 
Trio, c1932, 38 X 27 inQuartet, 1932, 38 X 27 in 
   
 
Abstraction with Musical Instruments, 
1932, 38 X 27 in
Mandolin Player, c1933, 38 X 25 
   
 
Ameba, c1932, 54 X 36 in 
   
 
Theater Box, 1933, 25 X 30 inAt the Cafe, c1933, 20 X 24 in 
    

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(Two) Beggars, 1933, 30 x 25 inNude with Cello, c1932, 54 X 36 in 
   

 

Abstract Forms, 1943, 24 X 20 in 
 
   
 
 
St George and the Dragon, c1945, 36 X 29 inAbstraction, 1945, 24 X 30 in 
   

 

Abstract, c1945, 30 X 24 in

Abstraction, 1951, 30 X 36 in

 
   

 

 

Abstract, 1962, 33 X 24 in

 
   
   

 

Circle Image, 1962, 30 X 27 in

Circle Image, c1962, 30 X 27 in2

  

Abstraction, 1968, 20 X 24 in

Abstraction, 1968, 20 X 24 in

  

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