Floral paintings part 2

Here is round two of my floral paintings. I knew the first artist, Walter Lynn Moseley and have a dozen, or so, paintings by him in my collection. He passed in 2019. One thing I really liked about him was that he would talk a little about the paintings I bought from him. He didn't have a lot to say about the painting in this post, but it is much more than most artists do. He was quite chatty about some of his works.

"White flowers in antique bottle", Walter Mosley, 14" x 11", oil, 2007. "This is a still life painting done in my north light studio in 2007. It is a painting of white flowers (shaped like small lilies) in an old antique glass bottle (before the screw-top was invented) with a maroon or wine colored backdrop."
Walter Lynn Mosley was born in 1960 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and later lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BA in Art from San Jose State University and attended the Art Student's League. He studied under Bob Gerbracht, Maynard Stewart, and Frank Mason. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club, fellow of the American Artists Professional League, and a signature member of the New York Plein Air Painters. I like that every painting he painted seems to be personal and unique to him, and he explains the location, context, and intent of the work. He passed away in 2019.

"Morning Glories", Zaidee L. Morrison, 11" x 15", watercolor: Zaidee Lincoln Morrison was born 12 November 1872 in Skowhegan, Maine, the daughter of Lucius L. and Stella E. Morrison. Her father was a merchant and rug manufacturer and her mother a teacher. Her mother was deceased by 1900 and she was living with her father, brother, and sister and already occupied as a artist. Her sister was a school teacher and her brother was attending college, so she apparently had financial advantages that allowed her to pursue a career as an artist. Lucius Morrison was aged 78 in 1910, still living in Skowhegan and still proprietor of a rug factory, with all three of his children and an unmarried sister in his home. It does not appear that any of the Morrison children married. Zaidee was still listed as an artist, her brother a violin instructor and her sister an "accompanist, piano". Zaidee was on her own in 1920, living at the Art Students League on West 57th in Manhattan, New York City. Her immediate neighbors were William J. Whittemore, Ilse Bischoff, Charles Avery Aiken, Margery Hawley, and several other well known artists. Many successful artists were her student peers in 1920.
Morrison worked as a painter and illustrator. She studied at the Cooper Union Art School, National Academy of Design, Art Students League, and was a student of Frank DuMond, John Henry Twachtman, William Merritt Chase, and R. H. Nichols. She exhibited widely and her work is part of the permanent collections of Mt. Holyoke College, the History House of Skowhegan, the Smithsonian Institute, Boston University, and the Municipal Gallery in New York City. She is listed in Dictionary of Women Artists by Petteys, Who Was Who in American Art by Falk, Mallett's Index of Artists, Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers by Fielding, and Davenports Art Reference and Price Guide.

unnamed, Lila Klute, 20" x 18", mixed media on parchment: I am still researching this artist. Not much information about her is available, even though she appears to have worked as an artist for most of her life. This painting is much more muted than this image shows. I am using the image provided by the seller of this painting. He appears to have "tweaked" the colors or perhaps used a flash when taking this image.

unnamed, Samuel Kamen, 24" x 18", oil on thick paper: Samuel Kamen was born 15 June 1911 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, a son of Mitchel and Ray Eisenberg Kamen. Mitchel Kamen was Jewish and immigrated to the US in 1888 from Russia. The parents of Ray Eisenberg Kamen were also Russian Jews, though she was born in New York and was about 14 years younger than Mitchell. Mitchell Kamen owned a clothing store during the censuses in 1910, 1920, and 1930. The Kamens retained their Jewish heritage and I found records of the bar-mitzvahs of Mitchell and Ray's three sons. I have found indications that Mitchell Kamen shortened his name from Kamenetzky. Samuel Kamen married Edith Segal after 1930. Segal was a well known poet and political activist. Segal was also well known for her career as a dancer. Kamen was a life long resident of Brooklyn.
Samuel Kamen was a painter, designer and lithographer. He studied at the Art Students League and National Academy of Design. He was best known as a watercolor artist, though many of his abstract and figural works in oils and acrylics have appeared in large numbers on ebay since the mid 2000s.
Samuel Kamen was listed Who's Who in American Art in 1959. His work was featured Artnews in 1946, in the January 1955 edition of American Artist magazine and again in American Artist in 1961. Kamen illustrated several of his wife's poetry books. Kamen's watercolor techniques are examined in Watercolor Your Way by Carl Schmalz 1978 and Watercolor Painting Step-by-Step by A. L Guptill. He exhibited widely, for instance, at the annual exhibition of the American Watercolor Society in 1944. Kamen's work was shown at the 75th Anniversary Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture by 75 Artists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1951. Kamen was a member of the American Watercolor Society and Brooklyn Society of Artists and received awards for his work from both societies. He died in 1995.