Eugene Ludins

Eugene Ludins (1904–1996) was a Russian-born American painter known for his representational, fantastic, and surrealistic landscapes and droll figure-genre scenes. He studied at the Art Students League, settled in Woodstock's Maverick art colony in 1929, and taught painting at the University of Iowa from 1948 to 1969, where his work fell into obscurity amid the rise of Abstract Expressionism before posthumous rediscovery. His paintings earned acclaim in the 1930s–1940s, including a medal at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1948, and are held in collections like the Whitney Museum.