Stanley Bielecky Oil Painting

Item Details

Paper
Signed

Stanley Bielecky (American, 1903 – 1985)
Untitled (Figure Study), dated mid 20th century
Oil painting on paper
Signed to the upper right-center

An oil painting on paper by listed American artist Stanley Bielecky. This figure study depicts a nude woman partially covered with a pink blanket and seated, leaning forward with her head resting in the crook of her arm on a table covered in a blue cloth with flowers in a vase and an umbrella on the top. She is painted with soft, expressive brishwork in a warm, muted palette. This piece is signed to the upper right-center and presented unframed in a protective acetate sleeve.

Stanley Bielecky was born in 1903, near Berlin, Germany and came to the United States when he was three settling in East Chicago, Indiana with his family. He received some training in the 1930s at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Chicago Art Institute as well. After working as a commercial artist for some time, Bielecky became a fine arts instructor at Valparaiso University in 1941. He first visited Mackinac Island in the 1930s and in the summer of 1941, he was co-founder and director of the Mackinac Island Summer School of Art. From the late 1940s into the 1970s he painted thousands of watercolor and oil paintings of Mackinac. This regionalism style approach often categorizes Bielecky as an “American Scene Painter,” with a nod to Thomas Hart Benton.

Condition

- paper is brittle; tears and pieces missing throughout edges of work, notable tears to lower right extend 2.5" into painted area; discoloration and foxing to paper evident to verso.

Dimensions

Item #

16CIN997-2356