Albert Pels Oil Painting on Tile Panel Landscape Study
Item Details
An oil painting on tile surface landscape by well-listed American genre painter and muralist Albert Pels (Cincinnati/New York; 1910 – 1998). The work depicts a tranquil rural scene with dirt path reandered through green landscape.A group of red-roofed mones are rendered under cloudy blue skies in the distance. The piece is unsigned by the artist. Presented as an unframed time.
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
- to fair; wear and scuffs around outer edges of tile; loose corners on tile panel; loose paint to the exterior areas of painting.
Dimensions
Item #
16CIN650-096
