W. Glen Davis Oil Paining on Masonite Abstract Floral Still Life
Item Details
An oil painting on masonite floral still life by W. Glen Davis (Western PA, 20th-Century), executed in the mid 1940s. In simple forms and muted earthen tones render a still life depicting a vase of white flowers. Signed to the lower left, ‘W.G. Davis.’ Presented with a beveled wood frame.
Davis was an original member of the modern art Outlines Gallery in downtown Pittsburgh. Outlines was started by Betty Rockwell in 1941. Davis was also a founding member of the Art and Crafts Center, Society of Sculptors and the Abstract Group. During the 1940s, he studied with founder of the Purist Movement and the Ozenfant School of Fine Arts in New York, Amédée Ozenfant (French, 1886-1966), who had fled Paris during the war. Davis exhibited a painting at the first post-war survey of Abstract and Surrealism at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1947.
Condition
- scratches and marks present throughout; minor rubbing from the frame; chipped paint to the left and top edges.
Dimensions
- measures the frame; board size 20" W x 24" H.
Item #
17DCC211-616