W. Glen Davis Ink Drawing on Paper "Weed Pickers"
Item Details
An ink drawing on paper titled Weed Pickers by W. Glen Davis (Western PA, 20th-Century), executed in the 1940s. Cubist style lines flowing in a single motion to create several figures working among a landscape scene. Signed, titled, and dated to the lower right. The work remans unmounted and unframed.
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
- light discoloration around the edges with minor tears and dents to the paper.
Dimensions
Item #
17DCC211-662
