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Irving Henry Guyer, born in Philadelphia on April 24, 1916 and resident of Nevada City since 1985, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. He was 95.
He was the son of Rose and Jacob Guyer, and outlived his dear sisters Evelyn, Frances, and Loretta. His beloved wife Betty Nee Rubenstein died on Jan. 28, 2010, two weeks short of their 68th anniversary. Irving grew up in New York and trained there at the Art Students League. He was with the Federal Artists Project of the WPA during the Great Depression and was a sergeant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II. He spent his career as an advertising art director, in New York and then in San Francisco, but he spent his life as a painter; in 2008 he had a solo show at the Sakato Gallery in Sacramento.
Even in his profound grief in the last two years, he could not suppress his own vibrant and creative nature. He continued to paint and began to write poetry. He most recently showed paintings at the Cooley Gallery of Reed College in Portland, Ore., and at ASIF Gallery in Grass Valley, and also presented one of his poems at the ASIF Gallery a week before his death.
He is survived by his children, Mark of Bethesda, Md., Paul of Ardmore, Pa., Daniel of Pike, and Leonie, of San Francisco; and by his daughters-in-law, Ruth Levy Guyer, Pamela Foa, and Lezlie Vincent; by his grandchildren, Mela Breen of Pike, Anya of Boston, Mass., Dana of Nashville, Tenn., Susannah Breen of Walnut Creek, and Nora of New York City; and by his adored great-grandchildren, Finnegan and Beckett Good of Pike, and Milo Guyer-Osborne of Nashville, Tenn.
Donations in honor of Irving, may be made to Sierra Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
He was the son of Rose and Jacob Guyer, and outlived his dear sisters Evelyn, Frances, and Loretta. His beloved wife Betty Nee Rubenstein died on Jan. 28, 2010, two weeks short of their 68th anniversary. Irving grew up in New York and trained there at the Art Students League. He was with the Federal Artists Project of the WPA during the Great Depression and was a sergeant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II. He spent his career as an advertising art director, in New York and then in San Francisco, but he spent his life as a painter; in 2008 he had a solo show at the Sakato Gallery in Sacramento.
Even in his profound grief in the last two years, he could not suppress his own vibrant and creative nature. He continued to paint and began to write poetry. He most recently showed paintings at the Cooley Gallery of Reed College in Portland, Ore., and at ASIF Gallery in Grass Valley, and also presented one of his poems at the ASIF Gallery a week before his death.
He is survived by his children, Mark of Bethesda, Md., Paul of Ardmore, Pa., Daniel of Pike, and Leonie, of San Francisco; and by his daughters-in-law, Ruth Levy Guyer, Pamela Foa, and Lezlie Vincent; by his grandchildren, Mela Breen of Pike, Anya of Boston, Mass., Dana of Nashville, Tenn., Susannah Breen of Walnut Creek, and Nora of New York City; and by his adored great-grandchildren, Finnegan and Beckett Good of Pike, and Milo Guyer-Osborne of Nashville, Tenn.
Donations in honor of Irving, may be made to Sierra Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
