Ogden Pleissner

Ogden Minton Pleissner was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at the Friends School and the Art Students League. Summers in Wyoming as a teenager instilled in him a life-long fascination and devotion to the outdoors. Pleissner was a realist painter of the hunting genre and European urban landscapes and his precise works are often reduced to the most minimal elements. His sportsmen genre paintings are tributes to the vast diversity of nature. During World War II, he was commissioned to paint for the U. S. Air Force and "Life" magazine, where he painted the Normandy Invasion. His ensuing sojourns abroad marked a change in subject matter, but his devotion to exact and realistic depictions were a hallmark throughout his career.