Merle Rosen Mixed Media Compositions

Item Details

Merle Rosen (Cincinnati, Ohio; 1949-2017)
Two untitled paintings, 1983
Gouache and watercolor paintings with metallic acrylic paint and colored pencil on paper
One signed and dated to the lower right, other unsigned

Merle Rosen (Cincinnati, Ohio; 1949-2017)
Untitled (Rabbit), 1997
Pastel drawing on paper
Signed and dated to the verso
Unframed

Merle Rosen (1949 – 2017) was a prominent Cincinnati folk artist, creating art for more than 40 years. She showed extensively in museums and galleries including the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati), J.B. Speed Museum (Louisville, KY), Kharkiv Museum in the Ukraine, Cincinnati Art Galleries, Carnegie Arts Center (Covington, KY), Chaucer Galleries (Scottsdale, AZ), and C.A.G.E. During her lifetime, Rosen received six individual artists grants from the City of Cincinnati. In addition to institutional and private collections, Rosen’s work his housed in numerous corporate collections, including: The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati Bell, Scripps Howard, Bethesda Hospitals, Ulmer & Berne and Cardinal Aluminum. Rosen worked in a multitude of mediums and she began teaching art professionally at the age of 15 and taught throughout her career.

Provenance
From the estate of Merle Rosen.

Condition

- some discoloration and edge wear to paper; pin holes in corners; some smudging of media in margins and to versos.

Dimensions

- measures one of the larger paintings.

Item #

18DCC500-994