W. Glen Davis Halftone of Fort Pitt Bridge Construction

Item Details

W. Glen Davis (Western Pennsylvania, 20th century)
Untitled (Fort Pitt Bridge construction), circa 2000
Halftone on paper
Unsigned
Artist estate name stamped to the verso

W. Glen Davis was an original member of the modern art Outlines Gallery in downtown Pittsburgh, which was started by Betty Rockwell in 1941. In addition, he was a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, and a founding member of the Art and Crafts Center, Society of Sculptors, and the Abstract Group. During the 1940s, he studied with Amédée Ozenfant (French, 1886-1966), founder of the Purist Movement and the Ozenfant School of Fine Arts in New York. Davis’s work was also exhibited at the first post-war survey of Abstract and Surrealist American art held at the Art Institute of Chicago in the winter of 1947-8.

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Condition

- minor scratches to print and paper; light discoloration and flecks of accretions to paper at the lower left margin; negligible creases to paper at the edges of the sheet.

Dimensions

- measurements of sheet; image measures 16.5" W x 7.25" H.

Item #

ITMG983880