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AW158 - Albert Pels - Oil on Board
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Artist: Albert Pels
Age: 1950 - Present
Medium: Oil on Board
Unframed Dimensions: 15" x 10"
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TITLE: Out of Work
FRAME: Ornate Wooden Frame
COMMENTS: Albert Pels (b. 1910 American) Signed: Pels – lower left.
Albert Pels was a talented 20th century American artist. He is known for his detailed paintings of genre, New York, mythological, trains, parks, Rush Street Bars, dancers, and portraits. Born May 7, 1910 in Cincinnati, Ohio Albert Pels was an art educator, illustrator and painter. He died at the age of eighty-eight on January 25, 1998 in New York City. He married impressionist painter Yolanda Zemfler. Pels attended the Cincinnati Art Academy and continued his education in New York at the Art Students League, Beaux Arts, and the American School. At the Art Students League Pels developed his technique and style through the instruction of Thomas Hart Benton, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Alexander Brook. He belonged to the National Society of Mural Painters, the Salmagundi Club and the Society of Independent Artists. He was on the board of directors of the Arts Students League in 1939, as well as, on the board of WPA Artists. Later in his life he founded the Albert Pels Art School in New York City where he was the director until the late 1980's when it was sold.