Merle Rosen Mixed Media Paintings

Item Details

Merle Rosen (Cincinnati, Ohio; 1949-2017)
Untitled; 1985 and 1986
Gouache paintings with pastel, ink, and colored pencil
Both signed and dated to the versos

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

- light discoloration to papers; pin holes in corners; slight edge wear; smudges of pastel to versos.

Dimensions

- measures one of two.

Item #

18DCC500-833