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554. Joseph Paul Vorst (German/American, 1897-1947), "Sharecropper's Revolt", c.1930; oil/board, 30" x 24", signed, provenance: artist's son. Important regionalist painter. Vorst studied at the Folkwang Academy and at the Academy of Fine Art, Berlin. He exhibited at the New York World's Fair (1939), Whitney Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Kansas City Art Institute, and the Golden Gate Expo. He was a WPA muralist, and was given a prize by the Public Building Administration for his mural in Paris, Arkansas. This is an exceptionally dramatic image of American social realism. 5000-7000 |
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555. Joseph Paul Vorst (German/American, 1897-1947), "The Saint", c.1935; oil/masonite, 38.5" x 33.5", signed, provenance: artist's son. 6000-8000 |
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556. Joseph Paul Vorst (German/American, 1897-1947), "Urban Scene", c.1930; oil/canvas, 27.5" x 18", signed, provenance: artist's son. 2500-3500 |
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557. Lee Atkyns (American, b.1913), "Rural", c.1944; oil/canvas, 30" x 25", signed. Washington D.C. modernist. Atkyns exhibited throughout the 1940s at the National Academy, Boston Museum, Phillips Memorial Gallery, and Georgetown Gallery. 600-800
Exhibited: Landscape Club of Washington, 1944, Art Association of Newport, 1945. |
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