Vivian Akers

Description

Betty and Tsau-Kuo

25 x 30

Oil on Canvas

Vivian Milner Akers (1886-1966) was born in Norway, Maine. He attended the Art Students League in New York City, later studying in Paris and traveling Europe. In the early 1940s, he visited California where he experimented in an expressionist style using heavy brushwork and applying multiple glazes. Akers was commissioned to paint Judge Thurgood Marshall, which hangs in the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. He died quietly in 1966, in Norway, Maine, where he is buried.