The Accordion Player – Claude Bouscharain

Claude Bouscharain was enrolled at the Arts Student League in New York when she painted this work. Fresh from the L’Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Paris she found the change of pace and style exhilarating. Her tutor, Morris Kantor, a Russian-born emigre, of whom it was said ‘that he had no hobbies and that painting was his true love,” taught the importance of composition and good draftsmanship…