Artist

Hugo Sperger

born Mirano, Italy 1922-died Salyersville, KY 1996
Born
Mirano, Italy
Died
Salyersville, Kentucky, United States
Biography

After serving in the U.S. Army, Sperger returned to his home in upstate New York, but felt himself a misfit in an industrial environment. Eventually he moved to rural Kentucky, where he painted for almost forty years.

Lynda Hartigan Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999)

Works by this artist (97 items)

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Reginald Marsh, Locomotives, Jersey City, 1934, oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Felicia Meyer Marsh, 1979.127.1
Locomotives, Jersey City
Artist
Date1934
oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard
On view
Reginald Marsh, Untitled, watercolor and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1979.127.4
Untitled
Artist
watercolor and pencil on paper
Not on view
Reginald Marsh, Atlantic Liner in Harbor with Tugs (mural study, U.S. Customs House, New York, New York), 1937, tempera on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1965.18.103
Atlantic Liner in Harbor with Tugs (mural study, U.S…
Artist
Date1937
tempera on fiberboard
Not on view
Reginald Marsh, Untitled, 1927, watercolor and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1979.127.3
Untitled
Artist
Date1927
watercolor and pencil on paper
Not on view