Edgar Yaeger Oil Painting
Item Details
Edgar Yaeger (American; 1904-1997)
Untitled, 1969
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to the lower right
An oil painting on canvas of a female portrait by Edgar Yaeger (American; 1904-1997), dated 1969. This painting depicts a brown haired woman wearing a brightly colored sweater against a blue background. The artist’s signature is present to the lower right corner of the painting. This piece is presented as unstretched canvas.
Known for his modern abstract style and his WPA murals of the Depression era, Yaeger was influenced by European modernists such as Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Giorgio de Chirico. Yaeger’s work has been exhibited at many institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, among others.
Condition
- to poor; dirt and residue to edges of painting; wear to edges of canvas; fraying of canvas edges; heavy dust and accretions present to painting surface; paintbrush hairs present in paint; stretcher frame holes to edges of canvas; creasing to canvas edges; staining to margins and verso of canvas.
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Item #
16CIN997-3198
