Young Troubadour (WPA)

 

Alexander Zerdini Kruse

  1888 - 1972 (biography)

c. 1936  

lithograph 

12 1/2 x 9 1/16" image 

pencil, lower right 

28 or fewer 

pencil titled lower center, signature on stone on upper right 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art FA 5903 

antique-white wove 

published 

WPA Federal Art Project 

AFAE191 

$250.00 

Alexander Z. Kruse was born in Manhattan's Lower East Side in New York. Alexander Kruse studied art with masters, John Sloan, Robert Henri, and George Luks. Unlike his mentors and even colleagues who depicted the effect of the economic crisis on the working class, Kruse drew the noble character of the worker in quiet parks and the countryside. In the 1930's his work was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He also taught and published greatly on the subject of art and published a novel written on his fictionalized youth.