Albert Pels Oil Painting on Unstretched Canvas Ohio Landscape
Item Details
An oil painting on unstretched canvas of an Ohio landscape by well-listed American genre painter and muralist Albert Pels (Cincinnati/New York; 1910 – 1998), created circa 1930s. This painting depicts a lush green landscape with a single tree near the center of the composition. The dark trees and foliage in the foreground frame the rest of the composition in the middle ground. This piece is unsigned and unframed.
Sold to benefit a scholarship fund for the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
Pels began his formal artistic training in his hometown at the Cincinnati Art Academy in 1931. Upon graduating, he further pursued his artistic career and moved to New York, refining his technique while continuing his education at the Art Students League, working under the likes of historically renowned artists Thomas Hart Benton, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Alexander Brook. Pels went on to study at Beaux Arts and the American School, and in doing so established his distinctive, signature painting style and content for which he became recognized.
Condition
- minor wear to edges of canvas, including rips, fraying, perforations, and stains; to the verso an old painting is blocked out in white paint.
Dimensions
Item #
16CIN650-001
