Louise Pershing Gouache Painting "The Young Hunter"

Item Details

Louise Pershing (Pennsylvania; 1904-1986)
The Young Hunter, mid 20th century
Gouache painting on paper board
Signed to the lower right
Titled to the lower left

Provenance
From the collection of P.J. McArdle.

Louise Pershing was the niece of US Army General John Joseph “Black Jack” Pershing (1860-1948). She studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts in Philadelphia as well as the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and the University of Pittsburgh. Most notably, she studied under celebrated abstract expressionist Hans Hoffman in Cape Cod. Louise was a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, and the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. She had a solo exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in 1945.

One of Pershing’s largest works can be found along Sixth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh. Executed in 1974, The Flow sculpture was produced from COR-TEN steel, a type of steel invented by the U.S. Steel Corporation in Pittsburgh. Inspired by a visit to their open hearth, the sculpture is an abstract depiction of steelmaking.

Condition

- accretion; toning to paper and mat; scuff marks to paper; creasing to paper; staining to paper and mat; tears and voids to mat

Dimensions

- measures mat; visible image measures 18.75" W x 25" H.

Item #

ITMG073815