L-53-0059
WALLY STRAUTIN Landscape Gouache on Artist Board Painting, Ferndale, Pennsylvania Countryside
Sold
DETAILS
An country road lined with farm houses and St. Luke's church in the small borough of Ferndale, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
MAKER
Valleja (Wally) Strautin (American, 1898-1995)
Strautin studied painting at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York, where she graduated in 1931. She was influenced by modernist artists such as Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, who were her neighbors in Greenwich Village. She produced portraits, landscapes, murals, textiles and geometric-based abstract paintings. She exhibited her work with New York’s Society of Independent Artists between 1929 and 1944 and was a member of the Union of American Artists.
Strautin studied painting at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York, where she graduated in 1931. She was influenced by modernist artists such as Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, who were her neighbors in Greenwich Village. She produced portraits, landscapes, murals, textiles and geometric-based abstract paintings. She exhibited her work with New York’s Society of Independent Artists between 1929 and 1944 and was a member of the Union of American Artists.
MARKS
Signed (lower left): W. Strautin. Signed (in pencil on reverse): Wally Strautin / 55 E 8th St. N.Y.C. / Ferndale, PA.
DATE
Circa 1930
DIMENSIONS
Width 28.5 Depth 2 Height 23 inches
Sight: Width 22.5 Height 16.5 inches
