Stanley Bielecky Oil Painting

Item Details

Stanley Bielecky
Untitled
Canvas
Unsigned

Stanley Bielecky (American, 1903 – 1985)
Untitled (Figure Study), dated mid 20th century
Oil painting on unstretched canvas
Unsigned

An oil painting on unstretched canvas by listed American artist Stanley Bielecky. This figure study depicts a standing nude woman resting her arms on a support behind her that is draped in fabric. This piece is unsigned 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.

Provenance
From the artist’s estate.

Condition

- some edge wear and fraying to canvas edges; foxing to verso.

Dimensions

Item #

16CIN997-2949