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About Arno Bretsnyder
Arno Bretsnyder was born in 1855 in Chicago. He studied at the Francis Art Academy then at the Art Institute of Chicago under John Vanderpoel, the leading force at the Art Institute School. Bretsnyder joined the Illinois Society of Fine Arts and later Josephine Hancock Logan’s group called Sanity in Art, which was a reaction against European and American modernism. He won the Logan Prize in 1938 and a year later he exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. Another award, the All-Illinois Prize was presented to him in 1952.
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Paintings by Arno Bretsnyder
| Pony Express |
| oil on canvas: 24 x 36 inches |
| signed: lower right |
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