VINTAGE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST PAINTING VERA WISE TX SCHOOL THOMAS HART BENTON

Published by 1900-1949

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Seller: 21 East Gallery, Villa Park, IL, U.S.A.21 East Gallery

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Medium: Watercolor An original watercolor and gouache painting by Kansas and Texas artist Vera Wise measuring approximately 19 1/2 x 24 3/8 visible inches behind glass in a frame measuring approximately 28 x 33 inches. Thanks for looking. Watercolor landscape painter Vera Wise was born July 26, 1892, in Iola, Kansas, growing up in southeastern Kansas and the Pacific Northwest. Her work was exhibited at many of the annual Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Texas Exhibitions of Painting and Sculpture. In 1920, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Willamette University, Salem, Oregon. From 1924-1925, she studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Wise studied with Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton in 1931, and again in 1938-1939, at the Kansas City Art Institute. In 1940, she studied at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, with Thomas Craig as well as the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. During the 1920s and the 1930s she worked at Montana high schools and Marshall Field and Company, Chicago. In1939 she accepted a position as the first chairman of the art department at the Texas College of Mines &amp Metallurgy (now University of Texas at El Paso) where she remained until her retirement in 1962. On Jun-12-11 at 16:02:34 PDT, seller added the following information: Sellers: Get your own map of past buyers. Fast. Simple. Region of Origin: US Size Type: Medium (Up to 30").…

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VINTAGE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST PAINTING VERA WISE TX SCHOOL THOMAS HART BENTON
Publisher
1900-1949
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Expressionism, Landscape

21 East Gallery

Villa Park, IL, U.S.A.

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Welcome to 21 East Gallery located in Villa Park’s Ardmore Historic District adjacent to the Illinois Prairie Path and just 20 miles due west of downtown Chicago. We offer an eclectic selection of vintage and antique items including fine art, decorative art, architectural artifacts, fine, vernacular and historical photography, American historical artifacts and paper, folk and outsider art, and much more. Mid-century Modern, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Victorian, and Contemporary styles are represented. We sell items to collectors, historians, dealers and institutions around the world such as The Getty, Taschen Photography, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Henry Ford Museum. One of our past holdings now sits in the Library of Congress and we have made six appearances on History Channel’s Pawn Stars. Items have been obtained throughout the United States with a focus in the upper Midwest, New England and California.…

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21 East Gallery

21 E Park Blvd
Villa Park, IL U.S.A. 60181