Louise Pershing Abstract Oil Painting, Mid-20th Century

Item Details

Louise Pershing (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1904 – 1986)
Untitled, mid-20th century
Oil painting on board
Signed to upper right

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.

Condition

- significant dust and accretions to surface; significant abrasions and staining throughout composition; wear and loss to corners of board in frame; wear, abrasions and staining to frame; significant dust and insect accretions to verso.

Dimensions

- measures frame; sight measures 15.75" W x 36.0" H.

• Item not examined outside of mounting.

Item #

ITMG882010