Reginald Grooms Abstract Gouache and Watercolor Painting "Brooding Light, Surf"

Item Details

Reginald Leslie Grooms (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1900 – 1989)
Brooding Light, Surf
Gouache and watercolor painting on paper
Signed to lower left
Title present on label to verso

Reginald Grooms was a painter, watercolorist, lithographer and teacher. His students include many prominent and listed Cincinnati artists. The son of a wood engraver, Grooms took up watercolors and oils as a childhood hobby. He received a minuscule amount of formal art training in his school days. Later, he would later study at the Cincinnati Art Academy for 5 years and the Academie Julian in Paris for 2 years. Grooms has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout his life. His works have been exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Cincinnati Art Club, the University of Cincinnati, and more.

Condition

- wear to edges and corners of sheet; abrasions and wear to frame; scratches to acrylic glass.

Dimensions

- frame measures; sheet measures 24" W x 18" H.

Item #

ITMG607027