The Oakleigh Collection

The Oakleigh Collection, presented here on this website, represents an important segment of art history - American Figurative Expressionism - from the early 1960s to the present. After 37 years of collecting, there are now over 329 objects, including major sized oil painting, sculptures, and drawings. This group of 40 American artists have, with a few exceptions, been woefully overlooked. Yet they have persevered through all phases of the last four decades. Their importance must be permanently recorded in history, as they have continued a figurative strain of German Expressionism in the United States. These artists and sculptors have retained originality in the face of conformity and have masterfully recorded the angst, violence, and happenings of these most turbulent times.