Reginald Grooms Tempera Painting "Maine Coast", Late 20th Century

Item Details

Reginald Leslie Grooms (Ohio, 1900 – 1989)
Maine Coast, late 20th century
Tempera painting on masonite
Signed to the lower left

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 studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and in 1923 he went to Paris to study painting at the Académie Julian. While in Paris he exhibited in the Spring Salons of both 1924 and 1925. In 1925, Grooms returned to Cincinnati to teach at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the University of Cincinnati School of Applied Arts. Grooms had numerous solo exhibitions throughout his life including at the Closson Gallery, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Club, Charles Morgan Gallery in New York, and University of Kansas Museum.

Condition

- scratches to the lower left and to the right; discoloration and finish loss throughout frame; chips to the corners of frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; sight measures 35.5" W x 23.5" H.

Item #

ITMG607028