Harry Mathes

Harry A. Mathes (1882–1969) was an American painter in the New York art scene from the to the front 20th century until his death in 1969. He was a graduate of the Chicago Art Institute. He had other training in Paris, London, Munich and Italy along with the wars (and subsequent to Hans Hofmann). He decided in New York City booming most of his excitement in Greenwich Village and he was a frequent exhibitor at the Lynn Kottler and Pietrantonio galleries and at juried shows. His stylistic repertoire encompassed post-impressionism, cubism and abstract expressionism. Mathes had a lifetime attachment in the New York Art Students' League, where he studied more than several decades. Pre-1950s colleagues append Sigmund Menkes, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Nahum Tschacbasov, and others. Midwestern player Joe Jones credits Mathes for "training" him during a brief dwelling in St. Louis as one of the "Blue Lantern" waterfront action in the ahead of time 1920s. Mathes was reviewed in the New York Times and the Herald Tribune, and is listed in Who Was Who in American Art. The recipient of numerous awards and prizes, he was photographed by Paul Juley in the 1950s and 60s and exhibited at the National Museum of American Art as ration of the Peter Juley and Son Collection documenting American artists, which currently resides in the archive of the Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution.