Description:

David Fredenthal (CA/NY/MI/Italy, 1914-1958), Franklin Village, Watercolor, signed and dated 1938 lower right, depicting a house with fence in the foreground, in a giltwood frame. Frame size 20 1/4in. x 23 3/4 in.

David Fredenthal was one ot America's most respected watercolor artists. He was famous for his bold, intensely vigorous and complex paintings and drawings that expressed his deep feeling for excitement with life and living. As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including five large panels in fresco under the Federal Art Project in the Brodhead Naval Armory, Detroit, MI, in 1937 and the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair in 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera. After he won a traveling scholarship to Europe from The Museum of Modern Art at age 19, he was the recipient of two Guggenheim grants in Painting. He had his first solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1937 at age 23 and many others after that including the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1947. he was chosen by Erskine Caldwell to illustrate his novel 'Tobacco Road' in 1940. Fredenthal was a War Artist Correspondent for both the State Department and Life Magazine from 1943 to 1946 and his work was featured in Life Magazine regularly during the war and after until the end of his life. Also featured in Life in 1956 were drawings that Fredenthal had vividly recorded on his sketch pad, of the entire filming of the movie, “The Pride and the Passion,” starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, and Frank Sinatra, along the treacherous mountain passes of Spain. (DavidFredenthal.com)

Measurements: Height: by sight 13 in. x Width: 17 1/8 in.

Condition:

Good condition, not viewed out of frame.

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