Bernard Gussow, American, Russian, 1881 to 1957, pastel painting on paper depicting a forest landscape. Framed. An original paper label of Rabin and Krueger Galler Exhibition, November, 1958, on the back. Bernard Gussow is an American artist known for Genre, landscape, figure, interior paintings. Bernard Gussow was a Russian born Gussow artist. He was trained at both the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design; in addition he studied under Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. His first claim to fame seems to have been exhibiting two works at the Armory Show in 1913, Movement and Figures. Gussow exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists between 1917 and 1934 and at Salons of America in the 1930s. By that time, he had moved from abstract compositions to recognizable urban subjects. The Whitney Museum of American Art, for example, has his Subway Stairs. One of a kind artwork.