Olive Rogers: A Pioneer of American Expressionism Olive Rogers (born circa 1897, Milford Haven, Wales; died 1986) represents a remarkable anomaly in the annals of early 20th-century American painting – an artist whose brilliance remained largely unrecognized during her lifetime until posthumous acclaim secured her rightful place within the burgeoning Regionalist movement and illuminated a continuing fascination with portraying human experience intertwined with the sublime beauty of the Welsh countryside. Rogers’s formative years were steeped in Celtic folklore and traditional landscape pain…