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About the Artwork
This print, created in 1929 and measuring approximately 8 x 12 inches, is located in the south hallway on the fourth floor.
About the Artist
Leo Meissner
Leo Meissner was born in Hamtramck, Michigan in the heart of the newly industrialized areas surrounding Detroit. He studied at the Detroit Fine Arts Academy with John P. Wicker. After 1910 he enlisted to serve during World War I and on the troop ship to France, he fell in love with the swells of the Atlantic Ocean. He felt that the ocean would make a fine subject for painting and for the remainder of his life, he pursued the sea as a major theme in his painting and printmaking. Following the war, he continued his studies at the Detroit Fine Arts Academy where he won a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York. At the Art Students League, Meissner studied painting with Robert Henri and George Luks. He secured a job as an assistant art director on the magazine, “Charm”. In 1923 he took a vacation to Monhegan Island, a location that would provide inspiration for his work for the next fifty years. He retired from magazine work in 1950 to devote his artistic energies to his own work, particularly wood engraving during the 1950s and 1960s. He also made some brilliant Manhattan subjects during the 1920s and 1930s. In his career, which spans over 50 years, Meissner produced more than 150 relief prints. Meissner instituted the Loe J. Meissner prize in printmaking at the National Academy of Design for excellence in printmaking. Meissner was a member of the National Academy of Design, the Audubon Artists, the Society of American Graphic Artists, the Print Club of Albany, Boston Print Makers, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters; the Prairie Print Makers, Old Bergen Art Guild, Salmagundi Club, the Philadelphia Print Club, Boston Society of Independent Artists and many others.
Source: IFPDA
Did you know?
The City of Orlando owns more than 2,000 works of art and has one of the oldest public art programs in the state.
Discover Art in Central Florida!
For those who have eyes to see, there are hundreds of works of art around them.
This web site provides some information on many of those works of art that can
be regularly viewed in Orange County by any member of the public without an
admission fee. They are outside in public view, or located in an interior area
that is normally open to the public.
Look around this web site and find something that interests you. Then go see it
in person. The information you find here will add to the pleasure of exploring
public art in Central Florida.
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