San Francisco, CA
Details
- Dimensions
- 27.5ʺW × 0.85ʺD × 21ʺH
- Styles
- American
- Impressionist
- Art Subjects
- Landscape
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Period
- 1930s
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Canvas
- Oil Paint
- Condition
- Good Condition, Unknown, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Brown
- Condition Notes
- Excellent Excellent less
- Description
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This colorful artwork "Red Houses" 1936 is an oil painting on canvas by American impressionist artist Judson Reynolds Briggs, b.1906. …
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This colorful artwork "Red Houses" 1936 is an oil painting on canvas by American impressionist artist Judson Reynolds Briggs, b.1906. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is 21 x 27.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, especially considering the age.
About the artist:
Studied: AIC; ASL; with Charles Schroeder.
Exhibited: A. Dir. Cl., 1945 (prize); PAFA, 1946; MoMA; WFNY, 1939; MMA, 1946; MoMA Traveling Exhib., prize winner; solo shows, Galeria Reger, 1952, San Carlos Acad., 1949, Galeria Mont Orendain, 1949, 1950, all in Mexico; Casa de los Intellectuales, Madrid, Spain Nat. Gallery Sect. & Sala Int. Friendship, 1957, Palacio Bellas Artes, Mex. (prize); Paris Exhib., sponsored by Picasso, Malraux & Leger, Maison Club, 1938; Span. Children's Milk Fund World Tour, 1938; Treasury Dept., Wash., DC (prize); Carillon Mus., Va. (prize); Portland Mus. A. (prize); Fairmont Gallery, Dallas, TX, 1970s; Village Group, San Antonio, TX, 1970s.
Work: Treasury Dept., Wash., DC; Carillon Mus., Va.; Portland Mus. A.; Athletic Cl., Chicago; Richmond Army Air Base Lib.; MoMA; Maison Cult, France; Mus. Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela; Mex. Am. Cult. Inst., Mexico City; UN Bldg., New York; Prado Mus., Madrid; Maison de Culture, Paris; U.S. Embassy, Mexico City.
Comments: Teaching: instr. graphic arts, New York Sch. Fine & Indust. Arts 1936; dir. painting, Artes Contemporaneos, Cuernavaca, Mex.; instr. drawing, Sch. Archit., Univ. Morelos; instr., St. Mary's Univ., Tex.; instr., San Antonio Jewish Community Ctr.; instr., Our Lady of the Lakes Col.; pvt. instr. Contributor: Direction Magazine.
His work is held in the permanent collections of national museums world-wide including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Prado (Madrid), the Palacio Bellas Artes (Mexico City), and the Museo Bellas Artes, (Caracas). His paintings also grace prominent private and public collections including those of the United Nations, the U.S Treasury Department and the American Embassy in Mexico City. less
San Francisco, CA
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