BERNARD PFRIEM THE INWARD JOURNEY.

The article features artist Bernard Pfriem. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1916. He taught night classes at the Cleveland Institute of Art while attending day sessions as a scholarship student. He won traveling fellowships from the Institute and Western Reserve University after graduation and worked on murals in Mexico. His style evolved from figurative expressionism to semi-cubistic abstractions and became obsessed with self-portraits after separating from his wife. Also mentioned is his preference for the mysterious, the provocative and the unknown.