Albert Pels Oil Painting on Unstretched Canvas "Penn Station - Just Married"

Item Details

An oil painting on unstretched canvas titled Penn Station – Just Married by well-listed American genre painter and muralist Albert Pels (Cincinnati/New York; 1910 – 1998). Within the crowded railroad station, three central figures sit on a bench. A man with a newspaper looks over at the couple on his left. The woman wears a white dress and several gold rings. She leans towards a man in a red cap – her husband. To the lower left, the work is signed by the on the edge of the newspaper. To the verso, the title is written in black ink. Presented as an unstretched and unframed canvas.

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

- some wear to edges of canvas.

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Item #

16CIN650-073