SYMBOLIST Oil Painting ~ FOREST DRYAD ~ c1920 Quanchi Early AMERICAN MODERNISM

Description: A fine hand painted framed oil by American artist Leo William Quanchi (1892-1974). The painting is a Symbolist idyllic landscape with figure, it is signed in the lower right and likely dates to circa 1920. The work measures 9 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches, with frame it is approx. 14 x 17 inches. It is painted on canvas and mounted on board, the frame very likely the original. The reverse bears the name and address of a previous owner and there is one corner of an exhibition label (NA...) in the upper left reverse, probably National Academy of Design where Quanchi exhibited regularly. L. William Quanchi (1892-1974) was an American modernist painter, primarily a Symbolist landscape painter in his early work, he began evolving towards abstractionism beginning in the 1940s. Born in New York to a Swiss family of artists, he studied at City College of New York, the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League and the Parsons School of Design with George De Forest Brush, Francis Coates Jones and Douglas Volk. Exhibited: Society of Independent Artists, 1917, 1922, 1932, 1940, 1942-44; Salons of America, 1922, 1931, 1932, 1934; National Academy of Design, annually; Penn. Academy of Fine Arts Annuals, 1922-24, 1948-49, 1953; Pepsi-Cola, 1944, 1946; Corcoran Gallery biennials, 1951-59 (3 times); Montclair Art Museum, annually; Whitney Museum of American Art; Des Moines Art Center; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Monmouth College, NJ, 1961; New Jersey Art Today, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., 1965; Salmagundi Club prize, 1968. Quanchi's work is represented in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Newark Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Price: 745 USD

Location: Spring Hill, Florida

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