01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 98

Henry Strater, (1896 - 1987)

Happy Birthday Adam, c. 1971

Oil on canvas

50 x 30 inches

Private collection

Henry Strater came of age in the Lost Generation after the first World War.  He attended Princeton. He later went to Paris in the 1920s to study at the Academy Grande Chaumiere and with Edouard Vuillard.

Strater was a versatile painter  and his portraits, watercolors and other realistic works are or have been displayed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the City Art Museum of St. Louis, the Detroit Institute of Arts. Lehigh University Art Gallery and the Ogunquit (Maine) Museum of American Art, a small museum he built in the art colony where he had spent his summers since 1925. 

Strater was born in Louisville, Ky., he died at 91 in Palm Beach, Florida in 1987. More on Henry Strater

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