STERLING STRAUSER  Still Life Oil Painting on Board from 1963.

　　Overall dimensions:

　　20" wide x 17 1/2" with the frame, 12" x 10" is the painting alone.

　　The frame is in fair condition.

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　　Sterling Boyd Strauser (1907–1995), whose German name means “one who binds the flowers,” was born in Bloomsburg, Pa. in 1907, and later moved to East Stroudsburg, Pa., with his wife, Dorothy.

　　Strauser’s works have been exhibited at: the Lyzon Gallery, Nashville, Tenn.; the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pa.; and Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. His paintings are included in the permanent collections of the American Museum in Bath, England; the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa.; Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.; Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pa.; Cheekwood Museum and Vanderbilt University, both in Nashville, Tenn.; Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Va.; and, numerous private and corporate collections.

　　In addition to his painting, Strauser served as a teacher and principal of the grade school in Mount Pocono from 1928 to 1929. He also worked at the International Boiler Works in East Stroudsburg where he began as a shipping clerk in 1930 and retired as company secretary in 1962.

　　Timeline of the Life of Sterling Strauser

　　1907 – Born in Bloomsburg, PA, on August 15 to Boyd Wesley and Emma (Freas) Strauser

　　1922 – Begins painting at age 15

　　1924 – Attends Bloomsburg State Teacher’s College

　　1928 – Graduates; marries Dorothy Ferry, his high school sweetheart, in June; moves with his wife to East Stroudsburg area to take teaching position

　　1928 – 29 –Teaches at a grade school in Mount Pocono

　　1930 – Begins work as a shipping clerk at the International Boiler Works in East Stroudsburg

　　1933 – Sterling and Dorothy’s daughter, Jill, is born.

　　1939 – Solo Exhibit at Zimbalist Gallery in New York City

　　1942 – Begins correspondence with Victor Joseph Gatto

　　c1949 – Travels to Asbury Park and paints ocean for first time

　　c1960 – Dorothy Strauser discovers Justin McCarthy at Courthouse Square Outdoor Art Fair in Stroudsburg

　　c1960 – Sterling meets Jack Savitsky

　　1962 – Retires as Office Manager from International Boiler Works

　　mid – 1960s – Artist Group with Phyllis Reuben, Nancy Hebard and others

　　1985 – Exhibits at the Jack Savitt Gallery in Macungie

　　1989 – Receives the Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts Award, which is later named for him and Dorothy

　　1990 – Participates in symposium for The Cutting Edge: Twentieth Century American Folk Art Exhibit at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City

　　1991 – Authors Chuck and Jan Rosenak dedicate Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists to the couple

　　1991 – Treated for cancer

　　1993 – Folk Art Society of America presents annual Award of Distinction to Sterling and Dorothy Strauser

　　1995 – Sterling Strauser dies of cancer at home on September 16 at age 88

　　1999 – 2000 – A Modernist Revisited Exhibit at Reading Public Museum

　　2001 – Sterling Strauser and His Friends Exhibit at Belmont Univ. (Ten