American Artist June Leaf Statue Of Liberty Float 1967 Parade Oil Painting

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American Artist June Leaf Statue Of Liberty Float 1967 Parade Oil Painting :
$28999.00

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Oil on canvas by June Leaf titled\"Statue of Liberty\" float for the Spring mobilization New York City, 1967. This oil painting surely would be a great addition to your collection. June Leaf was born in 1929 in Chicago. In Chicago, she begins her studies at the New Bauhaus Institute of Design, which she interrupts after three months in favor of a stay in Paris. In the French capital, in the Musée de l’Homme she discovers primitive art, which leaves a deep impression on her. Upon her return to Chicago in 1949 she strikes up friendship with artists such as Leon Golub who are affiliated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She concludes her studies in Art Education at Roosevelt University in 1954 with a B.A. and an M.A. Her earliest works as an artist date back to her student years. In 1948, she takes part for the first time in the Annual Exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago. The same year, Leaf has a presentation of her works in a solo exhibition at the Sam Bordelon Gallery in Chicago. In the 1950s and 1960s, beside her activities as an artist, June Leaf takes on teaching assignments at the Illinois Institute of Design, at the SAIC and at the Parsons School of Design, New York. Between 1958 and 1959, she travels through Europe on a Fulbright Scholarship. Upon returning to the States in 1960, she settles in New York. During the 1950s, June Leaf mainly exhibits her work in Chicago; by the mid-Sixties she takes the first steps that lead her beyond the city of her birth: thus, in 1965, she takes part in a group exhibition in the Galerie Rue du Dragon in Paris – one of her extremely rare appearances outside North America. In 1966 she has her first solo exhibition in the Allan Frumkin Gallery in New York. In 1969, Leaf – together with her husband, the famous Swiss-American photographer and film maker Robert Frank – retires to Mabou, Nova Scotia. She takes a course in forging and sets up a metal-workshop. June Leaf spends the major part of the year in the loneliness of the South Canadian peninsula in the Atlantic. But at regular intervals, the artist couple is drawn back to the metropolis, to Bleecker Street in New York’s Lower Eastside. In 1970, Leaf participates in a group exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. This is followed in 1978 by a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, where Leaf’s paintings and sculptures that more often than not are closely related to each other are also shown in group exhibitions. Both these museums have acquired works by June Leaf for their collections, as have also the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Since the mid-1980s, the artist is represented by the Gallery Edward Thorp in New York. The Washington Project for the Arts organizes a retrospective of her work in 1991, which is subsequently shown at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA. Up to now, June Leaf’s outspokenly individualistic work is barely known in Europe. The exhibition at the Museum Tinguely in Basel is the first showing of this artist in a European museum. The exhibition will include over 100 sculptures, drawings and paintings. The painting measures 34 1/2 inches (88cm) by 22 1/2 inches (57cm). The painting is signed lower right, June Leaf 1967. Also inscribed on the upper right, \"The ? be in a state of disarray, slightly whorish\". Framed in a black andgold frame by the Newcomb - Macklin Co. Included with the sale of this painting is her sketch andstudy book for this painting.

Condition

Overall condition of the paintingis excellent. No repairs, tears to the painting. The frame on the paintinghas acouple knicks and dings which surely could be touched up easily.

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