Vintage MCM American School West Chester Pennsylvania Modernist Tom Bostelle Painting Signed dated
American School Pennsylvania Modernist Tom Bostelle Painting Signed dated 1969 lower right, on panel, "Landscape by Tom Bostelle, lent by Mr. and Mrs. William C. Hayes", 14 x 22 1/2", 15 x 23 1/2" framed.
A native of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Bostelle won an N.C. Wyeth prize from the Chester County Art Association while still very young. He credited Cézanne as a major influence in his early career, and also admired the work of artists as diverse as Giacometti, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.In 1947, he had his first one-man exhibition and rose to prominence alongside Andrew Wyeth. The two artists—who lived only a couple of miles apart—frequently exhibited in the same shows.His works are in the permanent collections of the )National Portrait Gallery Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, West Chester University in West Chester, Pa., the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa.
15 x 23.5 x 2 in
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American School Pennsylvania Modernist Tom Bostelle Painting Signed dated 1969 lower right, on panel, "Landscape by Tom Bostelle, lent by Mr. and Mrs. William C. Hayes", 14 x 22 1/2", 15 x 23 1/2" framed.
A native of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Bostelle won an N.C. Wyeth prize from the Chester County Art Association while still very young. He credited Cézanne as a major influence in his early career, and also admired the work of artists as diverse as Giacometti, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.In 1947, he had his first one-man exhibition and rose to prominence alongside Andrew Wyeth. The two artists—who lived only a couple of miles apart—frequently exhibited in the same shows.His works are in the permanent collections of the )National Portrait Gallery Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, West Chester University in West Chester, Pa., the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa.
15 x 23.5 x 2 in