Out of the struggles of the Great Depression, Charles W. Thwaites
(1904-2002) rose to prominence as a muralist and leading portraitist in
Wisconsin. An active exhibitor in hundreds of local, regional, and
national art exhibitions, he won awards and critical acclaim from New
York to California.
Thwaites began his career straddling the cultural demands for a truly
American art while being lured to the formalism of European modernism
and the freedom of expression it espoused. When (showing 500 of 1766 characters). |
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