PAUL BOUGH TRAVIS ANTIQUE MODERN FIGURATIVE STREET LANDSCAPE PAINTING OLD 1919

Description: OUTSTANDING ANTIQUE MODERN IMPRESSIONIST WATERCOLOR PAINTING ON PAPER BY ESTEEMED FIGURE PAINTER PAUL BOUGH TRAVIS. (American 1891-1975) THIS WORK DEPICTS A MASTERFUL STREET SCENE IN OHIO OR POSSIBLY AFRICA, WHERE HE TRAVELED EXTENSIVELY. THIS PAINTING IS RENDERED IN GREAT DETAIL. SIGNED AND DATED 1919. MILD WEAR AND TEAR AS SHOWN. RECENTLY REFRAMED. DIMENSIONS: 24”W x 30”H DIMENSIONS WITHOUT THE FRAME: 13”W x 19”H Born in West Point, Ohio, near the border of Pennsylvania, Paul Travis became a painter, lithographer, etcher, and teacher, living in Cleveland and Cleveland Heights, Ohio. His name is closely associated with the watercolor tradition of Northeast Ohio. He graduated from the Cleveland School of Art, where he was a student of Henry Keller, a tonalist painter. He served in the Army in World War I and remained in Europe for several years, where he taught art at American universities in Europe. In 1920, he returned to Ohio to teach at the Cleveland School, renamed in 1940 the Cleveland Institute of Art. He also taught at Western Reserve University beginning in 1956. In 1927, he traveled extensively in Africa and used that subject matter for many years in his painting. Memberships included the American Society for Aesthetics; Cleveland Society for Aesthetics, which, in 1946, he served as President; Cleveland Museum of Modern Art; and the Archaeological Institute America. Exhibition venues were: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1920-1958; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Brooklyn Museum; Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Golden Gate Exposition, 1939; Carnegie Institute; Corcoran Gallery Biennials; Pasadena Art Institute, 1946; Butler Art Institute, 1936-1958; Ohio Watercolor Society, and Cleveland Art Association. Source: Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art

Price: 2500 USD

Location: Pasadena, California

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