Bidspirit auction | ALBERT PATECKY, GOUACHE ON BOARD

ALBERT PATECKY, GOUACHE ON BOARD - This lot features an original gouache on board by listed artist, Albert Patecky. Signed lower left and measures in frame, 18.5'' H x 21.5'' W. Albert Patecky was a Portland painter and printmaker who created works on both sides of the divide that separated traditional and modern artists in the mid-twentieth century Pacific Northwest. Adept at conventional landscapes and marines, he also created works of extreme abstraction and was thus a pioneer of totally nonrepresentational art in Oregon. Born in Mancelona, Michigan, the son of parents from Bohemia (later Czechoslovakia), Albert Patecky moved with his family to Chicago, where he took drafting courses at a technical high school. In 1925, at the age of eighteen, he enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied for three years.