Carl Ivar Gilbert Oil Painting on Canvas "Grinding Maize of Old"

Item Details

Carl Ivar Gilbert
Grinding Maize of Old
oil
Signed

Carl Ivar Gilbert (American; 1882 – 1959)
Grinding Maize of Old, n.d.
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘C Ivar Gilbert’ to lower right
Titled and inscribed to canvas verso
25’ W x 14’ H

An oil painting on canvas titled Grinding Maize of Old by well-listed American artist Carl Ivar Gilbert (1882 – 1959). This work features an indigenous woman and her child grinding maize with a pueblo village extending throughout the distant background. Signed to the lower right, the work is titled and inscribed to the verso. It remains unframed.

Condition

- stretcher bar is broken and glued in two places; puncture to canvas patched to verso; four punctures to canvas, up to 1 inch long; tears along canvas edges; faint spots of accretion and stains scattered throughout; some rubbing and paint loss along painting edges.

Dimensions

Item #

18DCC471-028