15 Facts About Roselle Osk

Roselle Osk was an American printmaker known for her drypoints and etchings.

Roselle Osk's style was realist and her subjects were figure studies, landscapes, and seascapes.

Roselle Osk exhibited frequently during the 1930s and 1940s and was awarded prizes by the Society of American Etchers, Philadelphia Print Club, and National Association of Women Artists.

Roselle Osk's work was often selected for "Best Prints of the Year" shows held by the etchers group.

Roselle Osk began her career as a printmaker in 1932 and, while she continued to show oils from time to time, from the middle 1930s onward she mainly showed drypoints and etchings.

Roselle Osk's work often appeared in exhibitions of organizations of which she was a member.

Roselle Osk showed with self-organized groups, most prominently ones associated with New York's Municipal Art Committee.

In 1936 Roselle Osk joined with Will Barnet, Kathrin Cawein, and Betty Waldo Parish to show prints in one such exhibition.

In 1938 the New York Times critic, Howard Devree, said that Roselle Osk's prints were outstanding.

Roselle Osk was awarded prizes in 1938,1940,1941,1945, and 1946.

Roselle Osk usually produced her drypoints and etchings on presses she kept in New York and at a summer home on Long Island.

Roselle Osk usually used a cream-colored Japanese paper and made no more than one hundred of each.

Roselle Osk was the daughter of Herman and Cornelia Thalmessinger Hellenberg.

In 1906 Osk married Marcus L Osk, owner of a prosperous Manhattan real estate business named Merit Realty Corp.

Roselle Osk died on May 6,1954, in her home on West 87th Street in Manhattan.