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American Geometric Painting of the 1950s browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art: Paintings: Tempera: Pre 1960: item # 277658
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| CONSTANCE CLARK WILLIS. "Beach Souvenirs." Tempera, ink and graphite on board, 16" x 19 1/2" (image), 17 7/8" x 24 (board), initialed ("C.C.W.") and dated ("'50") lower right, titled and inscribed on the 1952 Ohio Valley Oil and Water Color exhibition label on the reverse, signed by the artist in pencil on the reverse. In the artist's attractive 3"-wide, 2 1/2"-deep wood frame. The painting is slightly lightstruck; several shallow scratches: 1" (near the center of the composition), 1 1/4" (upper right corner, clear of the composition), 3 1/2" (lower right, touching the composition), 2" (lower right, clear of the composition), 1" and 3/4" (lower right corner, clear of the composition), 1 1/4" (lower left, within the composition). Provenance: estate of the artist. Willis' 1953 Louisville Art Center exhibition included two tempera and ink "Beach Still-Lives," Number 1 and Number 2, both painted in 1950; we assume that the painting offered here is Number 1, which was listed in the price list of the exhibition as "Not for Sale." Constance Clark Willis (1914-2004), painter, graphic artist and educator. Education: Rome (painting, sculpture, ca. 1932); University of Louisville; Art Students League (with George B. Bridgman, 1936-1937), Hilton Leech (watercolor); International School of Art, Mexico City (with Carlos Merida, 1946); Worden Day (printmaking, 1946-1947); Guy Pène du Bois; Boris Margo; Carl Holty; Ulfert Wilke; Juro Kubicek. Professional: staff of the Art Center School, Louisville (1942 - circa 1975); Lecturer in Art, University of Louisville; Member, National Assn. of Women Painters and Sculptors (from 1938). One-Person Exhibitions: Art Club of Louisville, 1938; University of Louisville, 1942; Louisville Art Center, 1953, 1962; Sarasota, FL (circa late 1950s); Ruth Sherman Gallery, New York, 1963; Swearingen Gallery, Louisville, 1981. Group Exhibitions: National Watercolor Exhibition, Fine Arts Society of San Diego, 1941; Art Center Assn. School Instructor Exhibition, Louisville Art Center, 1944; Amagansett Group, Morton Galleries, New York, ca.1945; National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, 1951, 1957; Terry National Art Exhibit, Miami, 1952 (prize); Kentucky and Southern Indiana Exhibition of Art, 1953 (purchase prize); Virginia Intermont College Regional Exhibit, 1953 (prize); National Print Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1953; Louisville Art Center Annual Exhibition of Art, 1954 (prize), 1955; Kentucky State Fair, 1954 (prize), 1956 (prize), 1962 (prize); Carriage House Fine Arts Gallery, Louisville, 1954; Interior Valley Competition, Cincinnati, 1955; Eleven Artists of the Region, East Hampton, 1955; Experience Artistique d'une Ville Americaine, Montpellier (State Dept.-sponsored tour of France), 1958; Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, 1959; Hunter Gallery Annual, Chattanooga, 1960, 1961, 1962; Grist in the Mill, Water Mill Museum, 1987; Jimmy Ernst Artists' Alliance First Annual Members Exhibition, East Hampton, 1995. Collections: Philadelphia Print Club; J.B. Speed Art Museum; Seagram Collection of Kentucky Art; Evansville Museum of Art; Columbia Museum of Art; Parrish Art Museum; Guild Hall, East Hampton; numerous private collections. | |||||
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