Artists
Ogden Minton Pleissner
(American, 1905-1983)Born and raised in Brooklyn, Pleissner studied at the Art Students League and gained critical acceptance at age 25 when the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased a work. Taking to the road with salmon rod and easel, he fished and painted across the country, capturing the exigencies of light and weather. Widely acclaimed, exhibited, and awarded, Pleissner’s work is in many museums.