Stanley Bielecky Graphite Drawings

Item Details

Unknown
Graphite on paper
Unsigned

Stanley Bielecky (American, 1903 – 1985)
Untitled (Figural sketches), 1933
Graphite on paper
Unsigned
Dated to lower left

Stanley Bielecky (American, 1903 – 1985)
Untitled (Portrait), dated early to mid 20th century
Two graphite drawings on paperboard
Unsigned

An assortment of three graphite drawings by listed American artist Stanley Bielecky. Included is one page depicting a full figure of a young girl as well as a portrait study and other sketches cropped in the margins. This piece is dated ‘7-4-33’ to the lower left. Also included are two portraits on paperboard of young girls rendered in loose linework. All three are 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

- discoloration to all.

Dimensions

- measures largest piece.

Item #

16CIN997-3321