To the North Blind
- Watercolor
- 16 x 28 in
- Ogden Minton Pleissner
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$50000. - 75000. Ogden Pleissner was born in Brooklyn but spent the summers of his formative years riding fishing and hunting in the West. Studying at New York's Art Students League under Impressionist landscape painter Frank Vincent DuMond among others he frequently had summer workshops under DuMond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. There he began Atlantic salmon fishing on the Margaree River. At age 27 his painting Backyards Brooklyn was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art making him the youngest artist in their collection at the time. Originally painting in oils when World War II broke out he was sent to the Aleutian Islands as a war artist. Being forced to work fast he had to switch to the faster drying watercolors. After his wartime service he returned to the landscapes fishing and hunting scenes for which he is so well known. In addition to being in the Metropolitan's collection his work can also be found in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum among others.