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Sonia Chusit

Sonia Chusit (1926-2023) Sonia Chusit was a painter and watercolorist whose work gained regional and national recognition in the mid-20th century. She studied at New York’s Music and Art High School, trained with Rufino Tamayo at the Brooklyn Museum, and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union. Her work was exhibited at institutions including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Butler Institute of American Art, and the Rackham Gallery in Ann Arbor. Chusit won a Michigan Watercolor Society...

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Sterling Strauser

Sterling Strauser (1907-1995) was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania and became a painter in expressionist/impressionist styles who used a heavy impasto technique. He began painting in 1926 in a near impressionist style that later evolved into an assertive Klee-like modernism. Still later his style softened into what one collector, Jim Sittig, of his work termed "romantic American expressionism." He was also an illustrator for "Mademoiselle" magazine and "Unicorn-A Magazine of Poetry".

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