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A new arrangement will make 7,000 of the American realist's works available to museums and researchers

A partnership between the artist’s foundation and two museums will enable much of his art to be viewed for the first time.

Artist Ogden Minton Pleissner was born in Brooklyn, New York and educated at the Brooklyn Friends School; however, Ogden Minton Pleissner spent his two summers at a boys camp in Dubois, Wyoming and a third summer at a dude ranch. The rugged western scenery captivated him and he captured it in sketches. From 1922 to 1926, he studied at the Art Students League (Manhattan, NYC) with Frank DuMond, George Bridgeman and Frederick J. Boston. He then taught at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New ...

Feb 24, 2021 "Winter" by Gari Melchers courtesy of Gari Melchers Home and Studio In 1900, Rudolph Mosse purchased the painting, "Winter" by Gari Melchers at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. Mosse was a prominent publisher and philanthropist in Germany building an empire that made his family one of the wealthiest in Berlin. When Rudolph died in 1920, his sole heir was his daughter Felicia Lachmann-Mosse and her husband Hans Lachmann-Mosse became the publisher of the company's flagship newspaper, the Berliner Tageblatt. The newspaper was an outspoken critic of the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler, ...