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Jay (John Jay) Steensma

Jay (John Jay) Steensma (1941 - 1994) was active/lived in Washington.  Jay Steensma is known for Abstract birds, animals and landscape painting.

Jay Steensma (1941–1994), also known as J. Steensma, was an American artist, primarily a painter, sometimes described by reviewers as a later-day exponent of the Northwest School* of artists. He was known for his extremely prolific output, and, at times, unusual media (such as latex house paint on brown paper shopping bags). Chalices, snakes, houses, clouds, birds, and fish were frequent subjects in his work. He was one of the more successful artists in the Pacific Northwest in the 1980s and 90s, but had longstanding health problems, and died in Seattle at age 52.

John Jay Steensma (Frisian; trans., 'stonemason') was born December 8, 1941, in Moscow, Idaho, the eldest son of John and Oliva Steensma, and was raised in nearby Belmont, Washington. He moved to Seattle in 1959 to attend the University of Washington School of Art, where influential teachers included Walter F. Isaacs, Spencer Moseley, Bob Jones, and Wendell Brazeau. While there he won a prize in the Northwest Printmake   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3485 characters.]  Artist bio

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