ARTIST

George Ault

1891–1948 · United States

Precisionist painter who called skyscrapers 'tombstones of capitalism' and painted haunting nocturnes in poverty.

ABOUT

George Copeland Ault (October 11, 1891 – December 30, 1948) was an American painter. He was loosely grouped with the Precisionist movement and, though influenced by Cubism and Surrealism, his most lasting work is of a realist nature. == Biography == Ault was born in Cleveland, Ohio, US, into a wealthy family and spent his youth in London, England, where he studied at the Slade School of Art and St John's Wood School of Art. Returning to the United States in 1911, he spent th…

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NOTABLE WORKS
New York Night, No. 2 1921 · The Vilcek Foundation Construction: Night 1923 · Yale University Art Gallery Sunday Afternoon, Greenwich Avenue 1925 · The Vilcek Foundation View from Brooklyn 1927 · The Vilcek Foundation Cat and Lamp 1928 Came's House 1933
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