Louise Pershing Abstract Oil Painting on Masonite

Item Details

Louise Pershing
Untitled
oil
Unsigned

Louise Pershing (Pennsylvania, 1904-1986)
Untitled, n.d.
Oil painting on Masonite
Unsigned
18’ W x 32.25’ H

An abstract oil painting on Masonite by American artist Louise Pershing (1904-1986). This cubist-inspired work features a large orange and brown geometric form delineated with curved and pointed black outlines. The work is unsigned and remains unframed.

Louise Pershing was the niece of US Army General John Joseph “Black Jack” Pershing (1860-1948). She studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts in Philadelphia as well as the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and the University of Pittsburgh. Most notably, she studied under celebrated abstract expressionist Hans Hoffman in Cape Cod. Louise was a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, and the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. She had a solo exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in 1945.

One of Pershing’s largest works can be found along Sixth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh. Executed in 1974, The Flow sculpture was produced from COR-TEN steel, a type of steel invented by the U.S. Steel Corporation in Pittsburgh. Inspired by a visit to their open hearth, the sculpture is an abstract depiction of steelmaking.

Condition

- wear along board edges including chipped edges, paint loss and rubbing; some residue present along lower edges; faint scratch marks and general surface wear throughout.

Dimensions

Item #

18DCC450-073