Lot 550: Ben Edgar Shute (GA, 1905-1986), "Maine Fog"

watercolor and ink on paper, signed and titled upper left "Ben Shute / Maine Fog," matted and framed under glass. Ben Shute was born in Wisconsin in 1905, but had relocated to Chicago in 1922 to study art at the Chicago Art Institute. In 1928, he found his way to Atlanta after accepting a temporary teaching position at the new High Museum School of Art. This short stint morphed into a much longer tenure lasting six decades, during which Shute and his staff separated themselves from the museum and became the Atlanta College of Art (now absorbed into SCAD). It was in the 1950s that Shute and his wife began their annual trips to Maine and he completed his most well known works in a "shifting cubist perspective," working in watercolors, ink, and casein. In 2002-2003 the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens toured a retrospective exhibition of the artist throughout the state.
SS 21.5 x 28 in.; DOA 30.5 x 37 in.

From the Mead Corporation art collection which was begun in 1955 and actively acquiring works until the early 1980s.
Not examined out of frame.