JOSEPH P BIRREN Signed Maytime Oil Painting

Joseph P Birren Signed Maytime Oil on canvas board Painting, signature to lower right reads ‘Joseph P Birren’, inscription to reverse reads ‘Joseph Birren #394 Maytime Price 1,500’, subject a forest scene, measures 37 5/8 x 43 5/8 inches, canvas board measures 31 3/4 x 37 7/8 inches, wooden frame painted gold, frame has some losses and scratches, not examined out of frame, Joseph Pierre Birren was born in Chicago and attended the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1885 he was the youngest in a group of artists hired to work on a cyclorama painting of the Battle of Gettysburg; he then traveled with a second, larger version of it as far as Australia. Birren studied in Paris and Munich for two years before going to New York to start a career as an illustrator -M Christine Schwartz Collection Joseph P Birren, Joseph Pierre Birren, signed, landscape, oil painting, artwork, 20th century art, Oversized. 11L