Lewis Teague (painter)
Rudolph Lewis Teague (November 30, 1917 in Jamaica, New York – April 14, 1978 Fayston, Vermont) was an American painter from the Second Generation New York School.
Rudolph Lewis Teague was born November 30, 1917 in Jamaica, Queens, a neighborhood in the New York City to Cecilia Fehon Teague and Walter Dorwin Teague, he was their youngest son. He attended add-on 1 (now known as add-on 001 Alfred E. Smith) elementary school, then Gow School for Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities (now known as The Gow School) boarding hypothetical in Upstate New York. Teague was left-handed and even if he was attending the Gow School, he learn to write when his right hand, at least partially.
Teague married fellow Art Student's League painter, Mary Lee Abbott in 1943, while home on leave from the United States Army, where he served as a gunnery sergeant at a range in New Mexico. Teague left the Army in 1945 at the end of the war, and he and Abbott separated in 1946.
Teague attended Pratt Institute briefly to testing architecture but, while in New Mexico upon a painting excursion near Taos, instructor Tom Benrimo told the architecture student that he had a "painters eye", and perhaps he should focus upon painting, instead. Teague took his Benrimo's advice, and returned to the Art Students League of New York, where he met and fell in love with Virginia Grinnell Vanderbilt. At the Art Students League of New York he found Morris Kantor as a mentor and teacher.
In 1948, Teague arranged polio affecting his thigh and belly muscles, as well as losing the use of his left arm, his painting hand. Following a long recovery from which he was not acknowledged to survive let alone learn to promenade again. He and Mary Abbott finalized their divorced to come in 1950, and he and Virginia Vanderbilt were married in May 1950. Learning to walk subsequent to the immense bout in the same way as polio, Teague and his wife Virginia Vanderbilt left New York City and moved to Norwich, Vermont in 1954. Together they raised four children in Vermont. Teague instructor to paint and charisma again, in his studio in Norwich, this grow old using his right hand.
In 1959, Teague was photographed by Hanson Carroll for Life magazine.
He delivered a body of be active that was shown at the New York World's Fair in the Gas Pavilion restaurant in 1960, at the Port Authority in 1964, and through the Bermuda Society of Arts in Bermuda, with Henry Moore in 1965.
Teague died in 1978.[where?][citation needed]
Numerous shows in Vermont and New York City punctuated his career - however he had a reclusive lifestyle and did not perform his show as much as other artists. A play-act was held posthumously in 1983 at the Unicorn Gallery in Aspen, Colorado, from artwork found in a barn by his nephew. From that exhibition, his feint purchased in its entirety by a single Texas collector. It is unidentified what happened to these, some 22, paintings which include some of Teague's most definitive pieces of abstract expressionist and color showground paintings. Teague leaves a surviving legacy of paintings and drawings that have in reality not seen the spacious of day since his death.