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Ogden M. Pleissner
Born New York,
Died England,
Ogden Pleissner was born in Brooklyn in , and educated at the Friends School.
Ogden pleissner biography sample
Later, he studied figure painting and portraiture with Frank DuMond and Frederick J. Boston at Manhattan's Art Students League. Pleissner married Mary Corbett in Portland, Oregon in The couple settled in Brooklyn, as Pleissner took a position as a teacher as Pratt University for the next four years.
Pleissner began painting in watercolors in the s.
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased an oil painting of Brooklyn Heights from him, an act that made him its youngest artist. In , he taught at the National Academy and was elected an Associate and then Academician, all the while keeping various studios in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
During World War II, he painted for the United States Air Force, and also illustrated the Normandy invasion for Life magazine. After his return from the war, he moved to Pawlet, Vermont where he built a house and kept a