Here is an great painting of interest to serious collectors of abstract expressionist paintings....

Artist: Gloria Stoll Karn
Title: Untitled
Date: 1958
Signed: Karn
Size: 18" X 24"
Condition: Even craclure, otheriwse in good stable condition.
Original frame

Gloria Stoll Karn undiscovered first generation abstract expressionist painter...

Gloria Stoll Karn was a very successful pulp fiction artist in the 1940's after graduating high school. While commercial art supported her and her family, here true interest was in the fine arts and she enrolled in the New York Art Students League which was the hotbed of the emerging abstract expressionist movement. She alter moved to Pittsburgh, PA, in the late 1940's and studied with Samuel Rosenberg who also taught Andy Warhol.

It was at this time in the late 1940s' and early 50's that Gloria Karn was painting in the avant garde style as a first generation abstract expressionist, along with peers Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Willem DeKooning, et all. Gloria Karn was one of the few rare women painters in this group, with Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaller.  Not much information is available on the artist, today. However it is likely that academics will include her in the canon of the American Abstract Expressionist movement in the future.

The two paintings up for sale on ebay, are clearly high quality, and original compositions which can easily rank among the better output of the New York School painters.

Gloria Stoll Karn is a well-listed artist an appears in museum collections.
Here is a site with some bio: http://www.pulpartists.com/Stoll.html

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