Merle Rosen Mixed Media Drawing

Item Details

Untitled (Abstract figure), 1989
Charcoal drawing with acrylic paint on paper
Signed and dated to the verso

Merle Rosen was a prominent Cincinnati folk artist, practicing in Cincinnati 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.

Condition

- wear to edges of paper; slight discoloration; smudges of pastel media to both sides.

Dimensions

Item #

18DCC676-056