The first monograph on the work of the American painter Arthur Osver 19122006 this publication explores Osvers entire oeuvre from early urban realism to decades of engagement with abstraction. His long and productive career took him from Chicago to New York to Europe and back interweaving with the art of his time and his paintings have been collected and exhibited all over the world. Nevertheless he remained firmly rooted in the American Midwest settling in St. Louis to teach and paint from 196