American Cubist Gouache & Pastel Portrait Painting of Robert Lerner Chicago by Michael Hurson 1980 Paintings This work was acquired from

This work was acquired from the Portland Art museum in 2008

the inkwell is raised on 'teardrop' shaped feet

The table having a gently tapered pedestal column with subtle ring turnings to the top & base

As his organically shaped figures merge with an indeterminate landscape

American Cubist Gouache & Pastel Portrait Painting of Robert Lerner Chicago by Michael Hurson 1980 Paintings This work was acquired fromAmerican cubist portrait painting of the American academic Michael Lerner, by the Modernist artist Michael Hurson (1941 2007). This whimsical portrait is painted in the cubist style and is of the American academic & medieval historian professor Robert Lerner, the composition is in pencil and charcoal with pastel & gouache on handmade paper. Michael Hurson was a modernist, innovative painter and sculptor whose styles ranged from Cubism to Pop Art, this