Lot #0024: Antanas Tamosaitis (Lithuanian/Canadian; 1906-2005) "Pensive Christ" Abstract woodblock, Custom framed. High Valuation ART! A

Image sizes: 24 x 18 in; fame sizes: 32 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches. Artist listed by worldwide art auctions. Antanas Tamosaitis was born in Lithuania in 1906. In 1929 he graduated from the Kaunas School of Art and remained to lecture there for the next two years. From 1931 to 1940 he served in the Chamber of Agriculture as director of the folk art and domestic industry section and traveled throughout the country, studying folk weaving's and their techniques. During this time he published thirteen studies on Lithuanian folk art. In 1936 he had his first exhibition of tapestries in the Cultural Museum in Kaunas. Tamosaitis has won gold medals for his tapestries at the international expositions in Paris (1937), Berlin (1938), and New York (1939).After World War II he lived in Germany. From 1946 to 1949 he lectured at the Ecole des Arts et Metiers in Freiburg. In 1949 he arrived in Canada, settling in Montreal. For a year he was the director of the Academy of Arts and Crafts at the local Y.M.C.A. In 1950 he established his home and studio near Kingston, Ontario, and devoted himself entirely to his art. In 1989 he moved to Gananoque, Ontario. Tamosaitis participated in many group shows in France, Germany, Canada, Venezuela, Colombia, and the United States, and had one-person shows: in Montreal (1949, 1971), Chicago (1962, 1963), Philadelphia (1964, 1980), Ottawa, Ontario (1964, 1965, 1966), Kingston, Ontario (1965, 1984), Detroit (1966, 1984), Toronto (1967, 1976), Sarnia, Ontario (1968), Windsor, Ontario (1969), Washington, D.C. (1970), Boston (1971), Brampton, Ontario (1982), Mississauga, Ontario (1974, 1981), Winnipeg, Massachusetts (1974), Hamilton, Ontario (1975), Brooklyn, New York (1981), Chicago (1986). Come to pickup at Category A time-slot.