Description

This is a 7 1/4 x 61/2 inch pencil drawing on paper board of two boys playing the violin. It was done by well-listed New Jersey and New York artist Bernard Gussow around the 1930s or1940s. It is in very good condition. It is signed. See the photos. The photos show a darker mark in the upper ight hand corner which is a shadow from the sun, not on the paper. This piece will be shipped for $15 via UPS or USPS. Russian-born Gussow (born 2 January 1881-died 1957) was trained at both the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design; in addition he studied under Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His first claim to fame seems to have been exhibiting two works at the Armory Show in 1913 (Movement and Figures). Gussow exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists between 1917 and 1934 and at Salons of America in the 1930s. By the mid 1930s Gussow stopped exhibiting but was as regular as clockwork up until then. By that time, he had moved from abstract compositions to recognizable urban subjects & floral still lifes. The Whitney Museum of American Art, for example, has his Subway Stairs. The Barnes Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art also have his paintings. Gussow even participated in the Federal Art Project, contributing a post office mural (Recreation Hours) in East Rochester, NY. He taught for many years at the Newark School of Fine & Industrial Art.