Charles Bolsius

Charles Bolsius
Born Charles William Bolsius
June 23, 1907
's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Died March 23, 1983(1983-03-23) (aged 75)
Tucson, Arizona
Nationality American
Education Royal Academy of Art in the Hague
Known for Painting
Furniture design
Printmaking
Woodcarving
Movement Exprestionism, social realism

Charles William Bolsius was born in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands on 23 June 1907. He studied art formally in Europe moving to New Mexico in the early 1930s. He settled in Tucson in 1934. In that year he was painting, printing, building, and hand carving fine furniture and doors.

Drawing by Charles Bolsius

Life and Work

Charles Bolsius's sophisticated artistic sensibly was influenced by German and Dutch expressionists including: Leo Gestel, Thoroop, Kees van Dongen, and Emil Nolde while embracing the scale and environmental tonality of the American West.

He exhibited his art in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and San Francisco. He designed and built numerous modified territorial/pueblo revival buildings in and around Fort Lowell on the edge of Tucson and was a member of many Tucson art organizations.

watercolor painting by Charles Bolsius

His wood work can be seen throughout the Fort Lowell Historic District, Arizona State University Kerr House, in homes in Tucson's Catalina Foothills (including the front door of 2540 East Camino La Zorrela), the Church Doors of Sasabe, Arizona and the doors to the Our Lady of Sorrows chapel at San Xavier del Bac.

Bolsius died in March 1983 in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona.

References

Turner, Teresa, The People of Fort Lowell, Fort Lowell Historic District Board

Arizona Daily Star, Bolsius dies; artist was 75, March 23, 1983.

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