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New Alten Website
Historical Society member, former board member and officer, James Straub has launched a website on Grand Rapids artist Mathias Alten. Straub's interest in Alten has been his avocation for many years, even during his vocation with the sheriff's department as a lie detector administrator. Indeed, he has been documenting and compiling information on Alten's life and paintings since 1982. He has served on the Grand Rapids Art Museum's Collections Committee, and wrote the artist's Chronological Biography for the museum's 1998 exhibition publication Mathias J. Alten - Journey of an American Painter. His goal is to complete a Catalogue Raisonné, a compilation of all of his paintings and where they are. The catalogue and website documents more than 1,700 known authentic paintings in oil, watercolor and pastel completed by Alten during his lifetime.
Check out this site at www.mathiasalten.com
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