Albert Pels Oil Painting on Unstretched Canvas of Cincinnati Row Houses

Item Details

An oil painting on unstretched canvas of urban Cincinnati row houses on a snowy street, by well-listed American genre painter and muralist Albert Pels (Cincinnati/New York; 1910 – 1998), created in 1939. This work features an angled view urban residential building facades, with a single anonymous figure tending to the trash on the sidewalk. This canvas is signed and dated in black to the lower right. It is presented unstretched 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

- some paint loss throughout; scratches, and stains throughout canvas; stretch marks; tears and fraying to canvas edges; staple holes on canvas edges from previous stretching.

Dimensions

- measurement of unstretched canvas; painted image measures approximately 30" W x 24" H.

Item #

16CIN650-058