Albert Pels Oil Painting on Unstretched Canvas of an Ice Hockey Game
Item Details
An original oil painting on an unstretched canvas of an ice hockey game by well-listed American genre painter and muralist Albert Pels (Cincinnati/New York; 1910 – 1998), dated 1930. This work features a bunch of hockey players in high action and various states of aggression; some have fallen on the ice and others have their hockey sticks raised in the air. The arena audience is faintly visible as a backdrop comprised of painterly brushstrokes and specks of color. This canvas is signed in red to the lower right, and the painting 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, 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.
Condition
- minor paint loss at edges; some wear and bends at canvas edges; small holes along upper edges from previous stretching.
Dimensions
Item #
16CIN650-071
