Stanley Bielecky Charcoal Drawings "Mackinac" and "Long Island N.Y"

Item Details

“Mackinac”, Long Island N.Y
Charcoal drawings on paper
Signed to the lower right

Stanley Bielecky (American, 1903-1985)
Mackinac and Long Island N.Y, mid 20th century
Two charcoal drawings on paper
Signed to the upper right and to the lower left
Titled to the verso

A pair of charcoal drawings on paper by listed American artist Stanley Bielecky (American, 1903-1985), titled Mackinac and Long Island N.Y. The works depict a rural landscape and a street scene rendered with gestural delineations. The piece are signed to the upper right and to the lower left. A single composition is mounted under matting and both are presented unframed.

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

- matting is wrinkled and it presents tears; toning throughout the papers; unmatted piece presents glue residues along the edges.

Dimensions

- measures the matting; sheet size measures 17" W x 11.75" H.

Item #

16CIN997-2373