Eugene Ludins

Eugene Ludins (March 23, 1904 in Mariupol, Ukraine – 1996 in New York City) was a leading regional American painter and academic.

His paintings are in the store of the Whitney Museum of Art, and his works have been shown in solo exhibits in Woodstock, New York, New York City, the Dorsky Museum at SUNY in New Paltz, New York, and Albany, New York, as skillfully as in Iowa.

His representational art, often astounding and surrealistic, fell into difficulty after 1948, concurrent considering the advent of Abstract Expressionism and his pretend to have to teach at the University of Iowa. Only in the in advance 21st Century did he regain national recognition, posthumously.