$675 Industrial Scene signed 1946 watercolor 12.75" x 19"
$650 Landscape signed 1963 watercolor 21" x 29"
$750 15th Ave. & 4th Street, Minneapolis signed 1934 watercolor 7.5" x 9.25
$750 Railroad Siding signed 1941 watercolor 8.25" x 12.5"
$625 Badlands signed 1940 gouache 13.5" x 16"
$320 Old Mine signed 1951 serigraph 11" x 15"
$350 Rocks signed 1976 watercolor 10.5" x 14.5"
$950 Warm Bottle Still Life signed 1954 pastel on paper 24" x 18"
$2,250 White Cityscape signed 1952 oil on board 36" x 24"
$1,800 Black Cityscape signed 1952 oil on board 36" x 24"
$1,800 Yellow Cityscape signed 1952 oil on board 36" x 24"
$1,800 Red Cityscape signed 1951 oil on board 36" x 24"
$380 R5 signed 1952 serigraph 11" x 17"
$380 Heavens and Buildings signed 1952 serigraph 17" x 10.5"
$350 The Peasemakers signed 1948 serigraph (unframed) 15" x 9"
$300 Symbols signed 1950 print - 6/35 15" x 11"
$485 World War II cityscape signed 1945 watercolor 10.25" x 14.5"
$165 Farm (West of Minneapolis) signed 1969 graphite on paper 9.5" x 15.5"
SOLD N.E. Minneapolis #2 signed 1942 109/115 serigraph
SOLD Houses 1934 pencil on paper
SOLD Poles & Scrap Iron signed 1942 serigraph
SOLD Human Element signed 1952-53 serigraph
SOLD Coke & Gas Plant signed 1943 serigraph
SOLD Individuals signed 1957 serigraph
SOLD Dredging signed 1942 serigraph
SOLD Construction signed 1955 serigraph
SOLD N.E. Minneapolis #2 signed 1942 serigraph
SOLD Family signed 1949 serigraph
SOLD Gas House District signed 1940 lithograph
SOLD Maze signed 1958 serigraph
SOLD Still Life signed 1956 oil on canvas
SOLD Variations on a Theme signed serigraph
SOLD Flora signed 1962 serigraph
SOLD Danger signed 1954 serigraph
SOLD Aficionados signed 1964 serigraph
SOLD Pomp signed 1947 serigraph
SOLD Gas Plant signed 1942 serigraph
SOLD Fear signed 1948 serigraph
SOLD The Machine signed 1952 serigraph
SOLD Peacemakers signed 1948 serigraph
SOLD Main Street signed 1947 serigraph
SOLD Art Lovers signed 1947 serigraph
SOLD My Best Gal signed 1947 serigraph
SOLD Green Still Life signed 1954 serigraph
SOLD Little Switzerland signed 1947 serigraph
SOLD Carnival signed 1947 oil on canvas
SOLD South Dakota signed 1940 lithograph
SOLD Two Tables signed 1951 oil on canvas
SOLD Men on Bench signed 1935 pencil on paper
SOLD Store Windows signed 1952-53 oil on canvas
SOLD Cool Bottle Still Life signed 1954 pastel on paper
SOLD Industrial Scene signed 1952 oil on board
SOLD Male Portrait (probably Stan Fenelle) signed 1932 pencil on paper
SOLD Self-Portrait signed 1931 pencil on paper
SOLD Artist Self-Portrait signed 1942 oil on canvas 36" x 30"
SOLD Apparatus signed 1953 oil on canvas 21.75" x 30.25"
SOLD Village Scene signed 1939 oil on paper 12.5" x 16"
SOLD Industrial Scene signed 1942 gouache 10.75" x 16.5"
SOLD Palace of Fine Arts (SanFrancisco, CA) signed 1958 Casein on Art Board 20.5" x 32"
SOLD Untitled signed 1948 oil on board 32" x 20"
Sydney (Syd) Fossum (1909-1978)
Sydney Glenn Fossum was born on November 13, 1909, in Aberdeen, South Dakota to George and Olive Fossum. He attended the Northern State Teachers College in South Dakota and then studied at the Minneapolis School of Art from 1929-1933, where he received a B.F.A. degree. He married Bernice (Bunny) Olson in 1932.
He participated in government-sponsored art programs during the 1930s, including the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). He was very active politically and socially during this period and was involved with the Minnesota Artists Union and he was elected president of the organization. He served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1945.
Following the war, he held numerous teaching positions at institutions around the country, including Minneapolis School of Art, 1945-50; Washington University, 1950-51; Des Moines Art Center, 1953-57; University of Nevada (summers), 1957 and 1958; Minnetonka Art Center, the late 1960s. He also was the Director of the Duluth Art Institute from 1960 to 1962. He died in San Francisco in February 1978.
Syd Fossum won exhibition awards during his career, taking prizes at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and at the Minnesota State Fair during the 1930s. His work was exhibited in a number of one-man and group shows throughout his lifetime. He worked in a variety of media and created drawings, oil, and watercolor paintings, screen prints and lithographs. Fossum also did not limit the subject matter of his work, which has included satirical group character studies, somber portraits, city scenes, and pastoral landscapes.
Fossum's work is part of the collections of the University of Minnesota, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Walker Art Center, the Des Moines Art Center and the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.