Albert Pels Oil Painting on Unstretched Canvas of Cincinnati Street Scene

Item Details

An original oil painting on an unstretched canvas of a Cincinnati street scene by well-listed American genre painter and muralist Albert Pels (Cincinnati/New York; 1910 – 1998), created in 1930. Created during the time Pels was experimenting with Precisionism, this work features a winding snow-covered road lined with simple buildings receding to the background, and a few anonymous people populating the street. The work is portrayed in Pels’ signature style of vibrant colors, bold delineated outlines, and thick painterly brushstrokes. This canvas is signed with the monogram ‘AP’ in black to the lower right. Handwriting to the verso reads ‘Cincinnati Art Academy, 1930’. Presented as a loose canvas without a frame.

Pels began his formal artistic training in his hometown at the Cincinnati Art Academy in 1931. Upon graduating, Pels 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.

Sold to benefit a scholarship fund for the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Condition

- to fair; paint loss and flaking, focused along the lower left corner and upper margin near the edge of the canvas; creases and pin-sized holes in canvas along edges from previously being stretched.

Dimensions

- measurement of unstretched canvas; painted image measures approximately 24"W x 18.75"H.

Item #

16CIN650-053