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John Opper

John Opper (1908 - 1994) was active/lived in New York, North Carolina, Illinois.  John Opper is known for Modernist-leaning landscape, non ob, illustrator.

JOHN OPPER DESCRIBED THE 1930S AS A "GREAT GESTATION PERIOD" FOR HIS ART. "I thought the Thirties was a very vital time for American art . . . With the WPA, you got together whether it was the [Artists'] Union or the [American Artists'] Congress or whether it was a bar . . . and you talked about art, and you heard about important artists, and you began to live art."[1] But Opper also remembered the thirties as a period of breakdown in the vitality of American art; "we became aware that a great deal was missing."[2]

Academically trained like many of his contemporaries, Opper came to New York in 1934, two years after his graduation from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.  As a youth, he had taken Saturday art classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art and later studied at the Cleveland School of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

When he arrived in New York he was a well-trained painter, adept at rendering still   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5297 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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