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Artist: Larry Connatser (American, 1938-1996)
Self-taught painter and a pianist born in Birmingham, Alabama. Connaster earned his BA in English from Vanderbilt in 1961. He was influenced by professor and expressionist painter, Eugene Biel-Bienne. His work has been exhibited in many institutions including the sixty-ninth annual Chicago and Vicinity Show at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Newark Museum in New Jersey, the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina, among others. His work is in many private collections, such as those of the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Telfair Museum of Art, and the Morris Museum of Art. Over the span of his career, Connatser created 2,500 paintings, 800 drawings, and many murals. He passed away from AIDS in 1996.