Vintage Landscape Original Oil Signed Summers - Attributed to Ivan Summers (American 1889-1964), Early Work, American Impressionist Artist Oil on Canvas Laid to Board. IVAN SUMMERS, 1889-1964, was an important American Impressionist artist whose home was in Woodstock NY for most of his life, but his painting and teaching career included many extended stays on the east and west coasts, as well as the south, southwest and midwest. Born in Illinois, he studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts for four years beginning in 1910, and won three awards in the St Louis Art Guild Exhibitions 1914-1919 plus a prize in the Art Students League, NYC, in 1916. His summer studies in Woodstock began around 1913, and he was able to finance his early years through commissions for World War I officers' portraits and medical journal illustrations. By 1918 he was a member of the Salmagundi Club and moved to New Hope PA. He soon bought property in Woodstock, where he settled and married artist Theresa Jessel Jones in 1920. He became an instructor and by 1930-31 the Director at the ASL's Summer School at Woodstock, with winter visits to Florida and teaching positions also at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1925 and the Charleston SC Art School in 1926-27.