Josef Presser -Portrait of 3 Figures -Painting Expressionist Painting - Gouache and charcoal -Signed circa 1950 frame size 18 x 24" board size 14 x 20" Artist Biography (1907 - 1967) Josef Presser was active/lived in Massachusetts, New York. He is known for figurative expression, landscape painting. Josef Presser was born in Lublin, Poland. He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, in Europe, and with Bryant Baker, Henry Hunt Clark, Philip Hale, and William James. He was a member of the Philadelphia Watercolor Club and the New Haven Paint and Clay Club and exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His work is in many museum collections, both here and abroad, including the Uffizi, Florence, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia. A beautiful piece that will add to your décor!