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WILLIAM FREDERICKSEN Two works on paper.
Untitled, pen and ink and watercolor on thin wove paper, 1946. 215x180 mm; 8 1/2x7 inches. Signed and dated in pen and ink, lower left recto * Untitled, crayon and wax resist with charcoal on wove paper, 1999. 434x297 mm; 17 1/8x11 3/4 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, verso.
Born in Norway, Fredericksen (1914-2010) came to Chicago in 1946 to study at the New Bauhaus (Institute of Design) under László Moholy-Nagy and Alexander Archipenko. In 1947 he was invited to exhibit at the Annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1948, after more than two years at the Bauhaus, he left to pursue a successful career in commercial graphic design while continuing to pursue painting and drawing. He exhibited throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts, where he moved in the late 1950s, as well as at the André Emmerich Gallery in New York.
