Lone Jack, MO 64070
United States
Founded in 1985 by Dirk Soulis as a college student while working the ring at a Saturday night Antique Auction. Over the next thirteen years he exhibited at Antiques Shows in Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Brimfield, Massachusetts buying , selling, auctioning and learning. In...Read more
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Dec 5, 2014 - Dec 6, 2014
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 29 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.
Puncture on lower right visible from the back.
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