Evelyn Borchard Metzger Acrylic Painting on Panel "Llao Llao Trees"

Item Details

An acrylic painting on panel by Evelyn Borchard Metzger (American 1911 – 2007) titled Llao Llao Trees. The landscape painting depicts trees with large globular shapes on the the branches. It is signed and dated ‘E. Metzger ’49’ to the lower right and mounted in a painted gray wooden frame that is wired for hanging. Llao llao trees are a variety of beech in South America that host the edible llao llao fungus that grows in the form of large galls on the tree. Evelyn Borchard Metzger lived in New York and Brazil and was known for her genre, still life and landscape paintings.

Born in New York City, Evelyn Borchard Metzger studied at Vassar College with Clarence Chatterton, and at the Art Students League with George Bridgman and Rafael Soyer. Though Metzger is best known for her paintings of New York City’s Central Park, she has also worked and painted in Mexico, France and other parts of the world, including a major exhibition at Galleria Muller in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1950. Metzger’s work is inspired by a variety of artistic styles, including Realism, Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism. Her works have been exhibited in The Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, the Mexico-American Cultural Institute in Mexico City, the Bartholet Gallery in New York City, the Arsenal Gallery in New York City, among others.

Condition

- minor wear to frame and finish; wire for a picture light is attached and frayed at one end; numerous areas along edges of board that have been worn away by the nails; 1.5" W puncture near lower right corner; 0.75" area of missing pigment.

Dimensions

- sight size is 19" W x 27" H.

Item #

17LEX208-043