Lot 1012: Ed (William Edward) McGowin

Ed (William Edward) McGowin (Mississippi/Washington D.C., b. 1938), "Study for the Jacksonian", mixed media on masonite, pencil-signed lower right, signed, dated "1964" and inscribed en verso, 38 in. x 23 in., in a period frame.

Note: Born in Mississippi, Ed McGowin studied art at the University of Southern Mississippi and University of Alabama. Upon graduating in 1964, McGowin accepted a position in the Sculpture Department at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. As an emerging artist, McGowin exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art's prestigious "Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture" in 1966 and 1968, as well as at the Jewish Museum in New York City.