Artist Fred Staloff (b. 1924) is a remarkably diverse painter whose long career spans one of the most dramatic and vital periods in the history of American art. He initially worked in a realist style typical of the 1930s and ‘40s, but as Abstract Expressionism came to the forefront around 1950, he developed his own unique approach to the movement. Later, the artist experimented with a post-impressionist idiom, producing a series of portraits and landscapes reminiscent of Matisse and Van Gogh.