Bernard Langlais
(1923 - 1977)
Bernard Langlais was born in the Old Town, Maine in 1923. He enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and after serving in the military he went to art school and attended the Corcoran School of Art, the Brooklyn Museum Art School and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Later in his career he attended the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris and the Kunstakademie in Oslo. In 1957, he started experimenting with wood after he rebuilt a wall by piecing together scraps of wood. He continued to “paint in wood” creating reliefs, assemblages, and constructions. His early creations were more abstract than his later figurative and animal works. He believed that working with wood was evenly balanced between the intellectual and physical. After spending most of his career in New York City, in 1966 he and his wife moved to Cushing, Maine permanently.
Seagulls
wood relief
SOLD
Chicken
wood relief
18 x 20 inches
Signed lower left