Artist

Henry Gasser

born, Newart, NJ 1909-died 1981
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Henry Martin Gasser, 1959, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001637
Also known as
  • Henry Martin Gasser
Born
Newark, New Jersey, United States
Biography

Painter, teacher and writer. A native of Newark, N.J., Gasser studied at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art and served as its director from 1946–54. He wrote Oil Paintings: Methods and Demonstrations (1953), Techniques of Painting the Waterfront (1959) and Techniques of Picture Making (1963).

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)