Artist Keywords

Dorothy Strauser

Dorothy Strauser (1908 - 2005) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Dorothy Strauser is known for Figure, still life, cloth compositions.

Dorothy Strauser, wife of the late artist Sterling Strauser, was born in 1908. Dorothy and Sterling married in 1928 and were important collectors and supporters of American folk art. Strauser, herself, worked mainly in the mediums of watercolor and her own unique "cloth" paintings in which she used hand-dyed cloth that was "hooked" into a burlap backing.

Famed Pulitzer-prize winning art critic Emily Genauaer once wrote of Strauser's cloth compositions, "Her hooked rug pictures have a rather quaint and primitive charm, being toy-like subjects woven in fresh colors, unpretentious and imaginative." These cloth hookings were also referred to in "ArtNews" as "humorous and skillful." A writer for "Art Digest" stated that "in style (Strauser's hookings) seem related at times to the paintings of Russian primitives as modified by Chagall."

She studied with George J. Keller at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, and has exhibited at the Everhart Museum, the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1274 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 22 auction lots for Dorothy Strauser (of which 13 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 0 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Dorothy Strauser as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Dorothy Strauser in 0 of its research Essays. Dorothy Strauser has 11 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 13 similar (related) artists for Dorothy Strauser available:    John Savitsky,  Sterling Strauser,  Justin McCarthy,  Victor Gatto,  Charlie Lucas,  Lonnie B Holley,  Mary Proctor,  Edna Palmer Engelhardt,  Bernice Johnson Sims,  Jimmie Lee Sudduth,  Howard Finster,  Purvis Young,  Mose Ernest Tolliver