Bud Wehrheim (1910-2001), The Yellow Bird, Oil On Canvas Signed, Dated 1947

Bud Wehrheim is an American artist born in 1910 in Saint-Louis (MO), USA. He attended the Baltimore School of Fine Arts until 1932 before going to Europe, to Munich then to Italy and finally to Paris in 1934 where he worked with Ossip Zadkine before meeting Leopold. Survage whose student he became and with whom he developed a great friendship. In 1935 he returned to the United States, he settled near New York and he began his career as a painter by participating in numerous exhibitions. He was incorporated into the Marine Corps during the Second World War, and was sent to Iceland then to the Pacific Islands. In 1949, on a scholarship, he came to study in Paris by attending the Académie Montmartre, studying with Fernand Léger and André Lhote; there he met his friend L. Survage. Between 1952 and 1968 he exhibited in Paris and New York in different galleries (Mouffetard, Paris and Altdorper, New York). From 1961, he divided his life between Paris and Greece where he settled on the island of Skyros. His painting, until then very influenced by Surrealism and his friendship with Survage, will turn towards Greece and Mythology. From 1976, he settled in Ardèche where he lived, worked and exhibited until his death in 2001. Large oil on canvas, new frame. Shipping possible everywhere.