Alvin Rosser graduated from Ohio University in 1953 with an MFA degree. While at OU he studied with Aaron Bohrod and Charles Burchfield. In 1953 he married and moved to New York where he worked for the Mutual Broadcasting Company as a visual presentations artist by day and studied painting with Hans Hoffman at night. From 1954 through 1960 he exhibited abstract paintings in group shows in many NY galleries-- Ward Eggleston, Roko, Koltnow, and Caravan among others. He was a frequent exhibitor in the New York City Center Gallery. In 1960 he moved to Sparta, NJ, where he still resides and paints in oil and watercolor.