MID-CENTURY MODERN Expressionist ~ ODALISQUES ~ 1957 James N. ROSENBERG

Description: An original mid-century expressionist crayon painting by American artist James Naumburg Rosenberg (1874-1970). It is a strongly abstracted view, in bold expressionist color, executed in 1957 and the work depicts a pair of reposing dryads in a bucolic landscape. It measures 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches, with mat and frame the overall dimensions are 18 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches. The work is signed (as usual) with the artist's initials, the reverse of the backboard is also initialed, titled & dated as well as dated for 1966 when framed and presented. Aside from minimal foxing to the mat, condition is excellent. James Naumburg Rosenberg (1874-1970) was an American litigator, poet, printmaker and painter. He was a graduate of Columbia College and he received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1898. In 1922, Rosenberg founded the New Gallery in New York for the exhibition and sale of works by little-known American and European Modern artists. His lithograph, Dies Irae (Day of Wrath), made on the day of the Wall Street crash in 1929 appeared on the front page of the Sunday Magazine section of The New York Times in 1930. Rosenberg retired from law practice in 1947 and devoted himself to art. He was a member of the National Arts Club; the Society of Independent Artists; the Washington Arts Club; and the American Federation of Artists. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Air & Space Museum; The Brooklyn Museum; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Telfair Museum; the Nelson-Atkins Museum; the Newark Museum; and the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.

Price: 425 USD

Location: Spring Hill, Florida

End Time: 2024-09-27T00:29:59.000Z

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