Frank Nuderscher (AMERICAN, 1880-1959)

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Frank Nuderscher American, 1880-1959 Epworth Hill in Arcadia, 1931 Oil on canvas Signed lower right, with a handwritten note to the recipient of this commissioned work, J. W. Head of Palmyra, Mo, signed by Nuderscher on his letterhead. Summer landscape with trees, a small stream and distant mountains, framed. Nuderscher, born in St. Louis in 1880, was an American illustrator, muralist, and painter of the American Impressionism style. He had an early interest in art taking classes in New York, Philadelphia, and Provincetown and at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1904, Nuderscher first attracted the attention of the fine arts community when his painting of the Eads Bridge won first prize in the Artist's Guild Competition. Nuderscher paintings are in the collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri History Museum, the Missouri Governor's Mansion, the National Park Service Museum of Westward Expansion, the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri, the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis, the Arkansas Arts Center, and the Saint Louis University Museum of Art. Additionally he has painted murals all over the United States including in New York City, Atlanta, and San Francisco. Nuderscher is known as the last surviving artist of the Riverfront Art Colony in St. Louis, was a member of the National Society of Mural Painters, the St. Louis Artist Guild (where he won 10 first prizes), was president of the Independent Artists of St. Louis, and was the state chairman of the American Artists Professional League. His impactful role as a leader in the Missouri art community led to him being known as "dean of St. Louis artists."