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Message:: [QUOTE="Boland, post: 13138335, member: 20937"]Read an interesting article about the artist. Seems to have been an interesting but complex person (maybe also a bit troubled) He was not very well known in South African commercial art circles, and basically just worked on his own in his studio in the back of his house for many many years. He also destroyed a number of paintings he was working on just before his death. “Glaser was primarily a printmaker. His visual art comprised mostly of drawings and prints (etchings, lithographs and linocuts), but also some paintings, the earliest of which are the most interesting” “His presence in the art world is officially, but tenuously, valorised by a single line in Esmé Berman's Art and artists of South Africa (1969), by one image in FL Alexander's South African graphic art and its techniques (1974) and by a mention in the list of printmakers in the back of Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin's book, Printmaking in a transforming South Africa (1997). He appears in no recent histories of South African art, and will no doubt remain largely absent from any future histories, his impact being little felt beyond his own immediate circles” Sad really that he got so little recognition for a lifetime of work and devotion. But that’s often the case with artists and other creative individuals.[/QUOTE]