Herbert Tschudy
American, 1874 - 1946
(not assigned)New York, New York, USA
SchoolRealism
BiographyHerbert Tschudy was born in Plattsburg, Ohio in 1874. He was a New York based artist who did much painting in the West. He was an architect who devoted his life to art and entered the famous Art Students League in New York. He spent twenty years painting in the West and fifteen years serving as the curator of Contemporary Art at Brooklyn Museum. He also joined West Indian Expeditions where he created watercolor studies of marine life. He is most famous for his Southwestern paintings, many of which hang in the New Mexico Museum at Santa Fe. He traveled extensively throughout Europe and painted in Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria. He died in New York City in 1946. ( Note: Some of his work was signed "Judy.") (Source: Cincinnati Art Galleries website, Person TypeIndividual
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