#3026 • "A Death in the Family Framed Original Artwork Signed by Artist Frederick Zimmerman

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High bid $85.00

Status: Sold

"A Death in the Family" Framed Original Artwork Signed By Artist Frederick (Frank) Zimmerman III 21.5" Tall x 23" Wide Born in Connellsville on April 27, 1934. His family moved to Chicago when he was 8 and he began formal art lessons at age 11 at the Chicago Art Institute. Mr Zimmerman majored in art at Cornell College, Iowa with minors in English and Philosophy and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1956. He then completed a Masters of Fine Arts degree in painting and design from the University of Iowa in 1958. He then taught drawing, painting and design at Berea College in Kentucky, where the interest in relief printmaking became his dominant focus. He then went back to school on a full scholarship, and received a Doctor of Philsophy degree in Art History from Syracuse University in 1970. He retired as Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at SUNY Cortland and was awarded the title Professor Emeritus. Fred's works include oil paintings, watercolors and sculpture, the focus of his work being his addiction to the woodcut print media. Fred passed away June 5, 2016 in Cortland, New York at the age of 82.