Estate of Kay Cassill & R.V. Cassill -- Art Sale

We are honored to present and conduct the sale of Kay Cassill &  R.V. Cassill.

Both Prolific Artists.

Kay Cassill, IWS, NWWS, MWCS

While Kay Cassill received a B.A. from University of Iowa with Honors in English in the `Writer’s Workshop', her focus quickly changed to the visual arts when she found herself in Greenwich Village among the avant-garde painters of the era.  From there she moved to Paris taking postgraduate work at the Academe de la Grande Chaumiere.  She continued traveling and moved on to Bandol on the Riviera.  Eventually she traveled to Carrara, Florence and Rome - for the art - and marriage to artist and writer R.V. Cassill.  Returning to New York, Cassill continued postgraduate work at the New School with artist Julian Levi.  Moving back to Iowa she took up postgraduate work with famed print maker Mauricio Lasansky and painter James Lechay. While there she became a member of the Iowa Print Group.  She has also taken workshops with Karen Blackwood, Donna Zagotta and Mel Stabin. Eventually she settled in Providence, RI and Cape Cod.  Cassill currently winters in Michigan but maintains a home and studio in Truro, MA. where she spends some months each year. She continues today creating paintings in oil and watermedia.

Style
Over her long career Kay has approached her subject matter with intensity whether it was while carving into copper plates, painting in water media or oil on various substrates or drawing with pen and ink. Her most recent concentration has been painting with water media on Yupo and oils on canvas and linen.  As for her approach to painting she feels closest to the Figurative Expressionists. Her favorite subjects include figures interpreting her story-telling ideas but she sometimes side-steps when taken by a particular land or seascape. Recently she has ventured into the world of abstract  and mixed med painting.
Exhibitions and Professional Affiliations
Her work has been exhibited in numerous national and international group juried shows. Her prints were shown in Oslo, Norway. She has also shown prints and paintings in solo and two person exhibits in California, Connecticut, Colorado, Iowa, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma and Rhode Island.
Included among her Professional Affiliations are her Signature Memberships in the Michigan Watercolor Society, Northwest Watercolor Society and Illinois Watercolor Society. 

She  has published several books and numerous  articles.  As she was born an identical twin she relished the chance to write  Twins: Nature's Amazing Mystery wen the opportunity  came her way.

R.V. Cassill

Life and work

Cassill was born on May 17, 1919 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He earned a B.A. in art at The University of Iowa in 1939. From 1942 to 1946, Cassill served the United States Army in the Medical Administration Core as a first lieutenant, stationed in the South Pacific. Cassill's wartime experiences culminate in his short story "The Conditions of Justice," published in 1947, and won him his first Atlantic Monthly. After returning from the war, Cassill studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1946, where his artistic skills flourished. He mounted exhibits in Chicago in 1946 and 1948. After studying in Chicago, he returned to the University of Iowa, earning his M.A. in 1947. In 1949 he briefly served as an instructor at the University's Writer's Workshop before attending the Sorbonne in 1952 for a year as a Fulbright Fellow, studying comparative literature. Cassill worked as an editor for the Western Review of Iowa City from 1951 to 1952, Collier's Encyclopedia from 1953 to 1954, and Dude and Gent in 1958.Cassill was also a prolific artist who had several one-man shows and produced oil paintings, watercolors, lithographs, drawings as well as sculpture in wood, concrete, and paper mache.