The Beach by Irving Lehman Abstract Expressionist NY Russian WPA Artist Drip Oil
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The Beach by Irving Lehman Abstract Expressionist NY Russian WPA Artist Drip Oil:
$745.00
Irving G. Lehman Mid-Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media Painting
\"The Beach\"
New York Russian-American WPA Artist Oil
LEHMAN, Irving George (Russian/American, 1900-1983): \"The Beach\", circa 1948-1956, oil w/ mixed media/board,13 7/8 x 37 3/4inches (14 3/4 x 38 3/4x1 1/8 inches framed), signed in paint script \"Lehman\" lower left, period artist\'s label with his LaSalle St NY27 pre-ZipCode address label verso. Original artist painted frame molding.
Provenance:
This work was acquired from an heir of one of Lehman\'s relatives who lived and worked in the Greater New York area.
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Condition:
NOTE: Photo lens is focused in middle - sides have same detail but are slightly out of focus in images. Pigment generally quite sound but dusty. Black inner border motif pigment has craquelure showing through to white underlying primer in several areas that does not distract from overall gestural quality of composition and may be original. There is an old finishing nail lying flat at a diagonal slightly embedded in pigment surface that may be either part of the composition or perhaps adhered around time of creation when composition was still wet - looks as though it will pop off easily but we didn\'t attempt it (see detail pic). Frame is weathered, worn, stained and separated but presents as a handsome shabby style décor patina. Central rear vertical frame support has a bracket missing a nail - frame molding is a bit loose and will bow - by re-nailing the bracket and tightening the corner the frame should be square, tight and sturdy again. Amesomely painterly.
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About the Artist:
Biography:
LEHMAN, Irving George (Russian / American 1900-1983)
Painter, sculptor, printmaker and mixed media artist.
Came to New York from Russia as a young man and had studios in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Studied at Cooper Union and National Academy of Design.
One-man shows of both painting and sculpture at ACA Galleries in early 1930’s.
Worked as a WPA (Works Progress Administration) artist during the Depression.
Member of American Art Congress, worked near Woodstock and in Columbia County, NY and visited Rockport, MA & Mexico.
Subjects include Brooklyn Navy Yard, Coney Island, Central Park, Greenwich Village, Camp Lexington in the Catskills and Jewish themes, as well as both Social Realist and Constructivist influenced figures.
Lehman exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago ( AIC ), Brooklyn Museum, National Academy of Design ( NAD ), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts ( PAFA ) Museum of Fine Arts, Bezalel, Israel as well as in Paris, France, Japan and elsewhere.
His oeuvre includes periods of considerable Constructivist, Ecole de Paris, Social Realist, Modernist, Abstract Expressionist, Regionalist, Judaic and Russian interest.
Lehman signed in both cursive and printed letters throughout his career.
The artist’s date of death is variously recorded as 1981, 1982 & 1983 (the correct date is ‘83).
There are several recognized Lehman estate stamps including \"Red Rock Studio,\" a signature stamp and \"Estate of\" (as 1900-1982 as well as 1900-1983) as after the death of his wife (artist Martha Lehman) his art was dispersed to 11 heirs through numerous exhibitions and sales in Manhattan, upstate N.Y., New England, Florida and Canada during the 1990’s.
He is listed in the major sale databases, Davenport’s, Mallett’s, Who Was Who in American Art and numerous other publications.
15 Publications for Irving Lehman from the AskArt database:
2005 AskART Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005, p479
2005 Davenport, Ray
Davenport\'s Art Reference: The Gold Edition, p2421
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, 3 volumes, p3724
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog), p468
1991
Marlor, Clark S.
The Salons of America (Exhibition catalog) , p242
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog) , p622
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog), p1117
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog), p538
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram, p556
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
Who\'s Who in American Art-1986 1986, p1292
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947, p707
1984
Marlor, Clark S.
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog), p600
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
Who\'s Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition, p756
1973
Jaques Cattell Press
Who\'s Who in American Art, 1973, p927
1947
Editors
Who\'s Who in American Art,
The Beach by Irving Lehman Abstract Expressionist NY Russian WPA Artist Drip Oil:
$745.00