Oil Painting by Sterling Strauser: Dual Nudes, Framed

Two figures in yellow, one turned away, one looking out.

This framed oil painting of dual nudes is by Sterling Strauser (1907 – 1995), made about 1960. It is oil on board. Painters have long worked from the nude to study form and gesture, and such pictures were made for galleries and private walls rather than for any public duty. Two pale figures stand close against a blue-grey ground, drawn in a few dark lines, with heavy shadow between them. The frame is dark, with a carved inner border. Just under thirty-three inches high and just under twenty-nine wide.

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