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Lot 90: MARY HOOVER AIKEN (1905-1992) OIL ON CANVAS

Est: $1,200 USD - $1,800 USDSold:
Dirk Soulis AuctionsLone Jack, MO, USDecember 05, 2014

Item Overview

Description

Signed lower right, titled 'Mexico' and dated '52. Mary Hoover Aiken was married to Pulitzer prize winning poet Conrad Aiken and according to Joseph Killorin's essay on AskArt.com, "at age 15, Mary Hoover chose to skip high school to study painting at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, going on to the famous Provincetown school to study with Charles Hawthorne and Edwin Dickinson and then to George Luks in New York. After scholarships to Fontainebleau and the Kunstgewerbe Schule in Munich, she was chosen by Luis Quintinilla to paint with him the large frescoes in the Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid." The canvas size of this work measures 20 x 26 inches, frame measures 59 x 35 inches. Two F.A.R. Gallery labels verso. One of these is on a stretcher. The other is on the frame itself and reads F.A.R Gallery 746 Madison Avenue New York 21 N.Y.

Artist or Maker

Condition Report

Puncture on lower right visible from the back.

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Auction Details

December 2014 Fine Art

by
Dirk Soulis Auctions
December 05, 2014, 12:00 PM CST

P.O. Box 17, Lone Jack, MO, 64070, US

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