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2 Dogs -- 3 BANDSMEN; and Camera
1963
oil on fiberboard
Jon Serl
born Olean, NY 1894--died Lake Elsinore, CA 1993
Jon Serl's paintings magnificently fuse the vivid life of his peripatetic, vaudeville upbringing with mature musings on survival, human relations, gender identity, morality, and his own artistic life in the company of chickens and chihuahuas. When Serl began painting in earnest in the late 1940s, he favored landscapes. He soon turned to portrayals of human interaction marked by saturated color and liquid-limbed, dream-like figures. |