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The Letter

The Letter

Artist: Ralph Du Casse (American, 1916 - 2003)

Date: 1956
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Framed: 27 x 51 in. (68.6 x 129.5 cm)
Credit Line:Gift, Luther W. Brady, M.D.
Object number: 2012.15.2
A student of Hans Hofmann, Du Casse arrived in the San Francisco Bay area in the mid-1940s, when he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley.  In his works of the 1950s and 60s, the artist employed geometry with a painterly, expressionist element. He experimented with many modern styles from loose, gestural abstraction to dynamic, geometric Cubism.
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