California Impressionist - Oil painting on board - Signed - circa 1930/1940s
Board Size 16x20 '- Frame size: 20x24"
Artist Biography
Irving Kraut Manoir (1891 - 1982) was active/lived in California, Illinois / Europe.He is known for Landscapes, cityscapes, marine, portraits and genre scene paintings.
Manoir earned a reputation as painter and art teacher, and his painting subjects included landscapes, cityscapes, marine, portraits, and genre scenes from the United States and foreign countries.
Manoir was born and raised in Chicago, and was considered a Chicagoan until just before World War II when he moved to California. His residence with studio was located at 827 North Trumbull Avenue.He returned from a five-year tour of the art centers in Europe in 1932. Although he was exposed to schools of art, he regarded himself as self-taught. Exhibition venues included the Art Institute of Chicago; Milwaukee Art Institute; Brooks Memorial Museum in Memphis, Tennessee; and Marshall Field and Company, which gave him two one-person exhibitions.In 1935 he donated to the John H. Vanderpeol Art Association an oil painting 36" x 40" entitled High Sierras and indicated in his correspondence that Vanderpoel had been one of his teachers at the Art Institute of Chicago.