Arthur Lerner
Arthur Lerner (born 1929) is an American artist, known for his atmospheric figurative paintings and drawings, landscapes, and still lifes. He is sometimes described as a realist, but most critics observe that his work is more subjective than descriptive or literal. Associated with Chicago's influential "
Monster Roster" artists early in his career, he shared their enthusiasm for
expressive figuration, fantasy and mythology, and their
existential outlook, but diverged increasingly in his classical formal concerns and more detached temperament. Critics frequently note in Lerner's art a sense of light that evokes
Impressionism, delicate color and modelling that "flirts with dematerialization," and the draftsmanship that serves as a foundation for all of his work. The ''
Chicago Tribune''
's Alan Artner lamented Lerner's comparative lack of recognition in relation to the
Chicago Imagists as the fate of "an aesthete in a town dominated by tenpenny fantasts." Lerner's work has been extensively covered in publications, featured in books such as ''Monster Roster: Existential Art in Postwar Chicago'', and acquired by public and private collections, including those of the
Smithsonian Institution,
Art Institute of Chicago,
Smart Museum of Art, and
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, among many.
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