Description: Fantastic ca. 1940 Modernist oil on canvas “Ecuadorian Madonna (S.A. Madonna Ecuador)” by listed ASL / Woodstock Art Association / Panama Canal Zone artist Beatrice Sturtevant Gardner (1893 - 1989).Great listing in the Who Was Who In American Art on this painter. Back in 1938, she had a solo exhibition at Morton Galleries, 130 W. 57th St., New York City, which is where Oscar Bluemner showed his work.See Gardner’s painting, “Roosevelt Avenue, Balboa C.Z.”, in the Panama Canal Museum Collection at the University of Florida. It’s like Van Gogh meets Fauvism. The painting offered here is more Modernist. Gardner was American but lived and worked in Latin America, so her paintings are Latin American subjects.Beatrice Sturtevant Gardner (1893 - 1989). Born in 1893 in Westtown, NY to Emmet van Rensselaer Gardner and Emma Amelia Mapes. Profession: Painter, teacher, lecturer, writer. Studied: Columbia Univ., B.S., M.A.; Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Arthur Dow; C. Martin; Emile Renard; Art Students League.Exhibited: Salons of America., 1926; S. Indp. A., 1926; Argent Gallery, 1937 (solo); Morton Gallery.; American Artists Week, Balboa (C.Z.), 1941-55 (prizes); Florida Int. Exhib., 1952 (prize); Honolulu Library, 1957; Woodstock Artists Association; University of Panama; Newport Art Association; elsewhere, in Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Canal Zone, Peru.Member: Woodstock Artists Association ; AAUW; Canal Zone Art Lg. (founder; pres.). Work: mural, St. Luke's Cathedral, CZ; wall dec., Hôtel Bout de L'Óle, Canada.Comments: She arranged exhibs. for JWB Gallery., Balboa, CZ; directed Annual Community Art Exchange., CZ. Contributor of art reviews and articles for newspapers and magazines of Panama. Position: teacher, Canal Zone Jr. College, Balboa; instructor, adult educ., Onteora Central School; President., Woodstock Guild of Craftsmen Shop, 1958.Oil on canvas.Signed lower left “B Sturtevant Gardner”. Inscribed verso along w/ title(s) on frame and stretchers.Measures 16 x 20 inches.Overall measurements with original frame: approx. 21 x 25 inches.Painting was in unrestored condition when we acquired it. It had a tear to the left of the ‘Madonna’s’ head, which we patched using wallpaper paste (comes off if you wet the back of the patch) and semi colored but it ideally should be filled and inpainted.It hasn’t been cleaned. The (heavy!) frame is in shabby shape with scratches, chips, dirtiness, paint loss, etc. I think the frame’s worth fixing, but if you don’t want to, 16 x 20’s are everywhere so it’ll be easy to find a replacement frame. CHECK MY FEEDBACK AND BUY WITH CONFIDENCE! *** 20+ years of happy customers on eBay *** Please see my other eBay listings for more great items.Message me to arrange for combined shipping on multiple purchases.
Price: 795 USD
Location: Pitman, New Jersey
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: Beatrice Sturtevant Gardner
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
Size: Medium
Region of Origin: New York, USA
Personalize: No
Year of Production: Undated
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Width (Inches): 20
Style: Cuban, Figurative Art, Mexican, Modernism
Painting Surface: Canvas
Features: Framed, One of a Kind (OOAK)
Handmade: Yes
Culture: Latin America
Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
Signed: Yes
Color: Multi-Color
Period: Art Deco (1920-1940)
Material: Oil, Canvas
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Subject: Children & Infants, Cityscapes, Cultures & Ethnicities, Domestic & Family Life, Fantasy, Landscape, Women
Type: Painting
Height (Inches): 16
Theme: People, Cultures & Ethnicities, Art
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
