Woodmere Art Museum
9201 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19118 Corner of Germantown Avenue and Bells Mill Road in Chestnut Hill Telephone 215-247-0476
Fax 215-247-2387
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American Associations of Museums
The Collection
WARREN ROHRER (1927-1995)
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Green Stance, 1984
Oil on canvas; 60 x 60”
Gift of Jack R. Bershad, 1996
At the time of his death Warren Rohrer was one of the most highly regarded artists and respected teachers of the Philadelphia artistic community. For 25 years he taught at the University of the Arts and influenced many future artists. Although he began his career painting more or less traditional landscapes, in the early 1970s he transitioned to abstraction, using the cultivated terrain of Lancaster County, the site of his birth, as his inspiration. He is most remembered for his non-objective canvases saturated with over-all pigment markings which make pictorial allusions to the geography of his youth. In 1984 Warren Rohrer moved into the former Philadelphia studio of Violet Oakley, a renowned muralist, illustrator, and stain-glass artist. He lived and worked there until his death in 1995.
