"The Gate" Oil on Board Painting by Donald Frederick Witherstine

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"The Gate" Oil on Board Painting by Donald Frederick Witherstine from a Palm Beach estate.. This gate is probably in … more "The Gate" Oil on Board Painting by Donald Frederick Witherstine from a Palm Beach estate.. This gate is probably in Morroco where in the 1930's Witherstine did a series of block prints entitiled "Among the Souks - Fez - Morocco"

frame size 23.75h x 27.75 w x 1d
Image size 17..5 x 21.5w

Biography Donald Frederick Witherstine

Donald F Witherstine was born in 1896 and was later schooled in Herkimer New York. He studied at Bradley College in Illinois and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He served in World War I, and also pursued his art education at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia.

He landed in Provincetown, Massachusetts to study with one of its art colony founders, George Elmer Browne. This began a lifetime love affair with Cape Cod, and he became an early and longtime advocate for the famous "Ptown" art colony.

He was skilled in landscape and seascape painting in both oils and watercolors.This work was compared to that of Cezanne, one of the artist he particularly studied at PAFA less