Paul Ashbrook Oil Painting "Street Scene Tarragona"

Item Details

Paul Ashbrook (Ohio / Mexico; 1867 – 1949)
Street Scene Tarragona
Oil painting on board
Signed to lower left
Title inscribed to verso

Paul Ashbrook, born Paul Von Eschenbach in New York in 1867, studied at the Art Students League, under William Merritt Chase. He went on to study under Frank Duveneck at the Cincinnati Art Academy, where he later taught. He worked for the Stonebridge Lithographic Company of Cincinnati designing posters for the Barnum and Bailey Circus, and served as president of the Cincinnati Art Club, before leaving to travel through Europe and Mexico.

Condition

- nail holes at corners of panels; surface of painting has darkened; small accretions to surface; minor white abrasions to surface; light wear to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 9.5" W x 13.25" H.

Item #

ITMG199218