Painting by Xavier Gonzalez, Corcoran label,1961.
Title: 'Kyoto on the Komo'
Measures 35 inches by 44 inches

Davids notes: Komo is a river that flows through Kyoto Japan, the painting shows the river on the right and the traffic illuminated by lights on the left. Possibly a view from his hotel room.

Notes on the back indicate that Gonzalez started the painting in 1959 and continued to work on it from 1967 to 1970. A label on the reserve tells that it was exhibited in 1961 at the 27th Biennial at the Corcoran, which is the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC (The Smithsonian).

This work is from a group of paintings and drawings originally given to the Art Students League of NY for sale by the family of Ethel Edwards and Xavier Gonzalez after both of their passing. Both Edwards and Gonzalez were teachers at the Art Students League of NY-Xavier Gonzalez (1898 to 1993) was an American artist. He was born in Almeria, Spain.[1] He lived in Argentina and Mexico for some time, and was planning on becoming an engineer in a gold mine. In 1925, he immigrated to the United States.

Gonzalez began his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1921 to 1923, and his uncle, Jose Arpa, studied with him there. He also studied at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City, as well as in Paris and in the Far East. In 1931, Gonzalez became a US citizen, and in 1935, he married fellow artist Ethel Edwards (1915 to 1999), who was seventeen years his junior and also his student at Newcomb College. He often worked and studied with fellow artist Julius Woeltz, who was the best man at his wedding.[3] Gonzales commandeered the canteen wall at Newcomb for the use of his art students.[1]Gonzalez's works have been displayed throughout the United States, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was also well known in Paris, Venice, Brussels and Tokyo. He taught art at Tulane University, the Brooklyn Museum, Case Western Reserve University, and the Newcomb Memorial School of Art, and was the director of the art school at Sul Ross State Teachers College in Alpine, Texas. In 1953, he was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, then became a full Academician in 1955. He illustrated a children's book called "He Who Saw Everything, The Epic of Gilgamesh" by Anita Feagles (1966).Gonzalez died of leukemia in 1993, at the age of 94, at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, New York City.

Good condition overall, the paint is lifting in one or two places, you might want to glue it down or take it to a restorer.See the photos.