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OGDEN PLEISSNER Gateway in Tuscany.
Brush and ink on paper, circa 1940s. 376x474 mm; 14 7/8x18 3/4 inches. Signed in ink, lower left recto.
Ex-collection the Milch Galleries, New York; Macbeth Galleries, New York, with the original labels on the frame back.
Pleissner (1905-1983) trained as an artist at the Art Students League, New York, and at the start of World War II was commissioned as a captain in the US Air Force and stationed in the Aleutian Islands as a war artist. In 1942, he accepted a commission from the US Army inactive duty employed by Life magazine on assignment in Europe. After the war, he became one of the foremost American Sporting and Western artists.
