Louise Pershing Abstract Oil Painting on Board
Item Details
Louise Pershing
Untitled
oil
Signed
Louise Pershing (Pennsylvania, 1904-1986)
Untitled, n.d.
Oil painting on board
Signed to lower right
96’ W x 26’ H
An abstract oil painting on board by American artist Louise Pershing (1904-1986). This work features various adjacent geometric shapes and symbols resembling a series of road signs with several arrows pointing to the right. The work is signed ‘Pershing’ to the lower right, however much of the signature has chipped off. The composition 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.
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Condition
- considerable paint loss and large areas of paint chipping throughout entire composition; board is very flimsy and slightly curves; wear throughout board edges; artist’s signature is almost completely chipped off; stains and spots of accretion scattered throughout; rubbing along board edges.
Dimensions
Item #
18DCC450-080
