Original Barbara Van Winkelen Watercolor "Tiger Lilies" signed lower left. Professionally framed and matted. In frame 19"x23"x1". Weight 4 pds. Barbara Putnam Hayes Van Winkelen (1919-2010) born in Newton, Massachusetts. She grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut; lived in Windsor, Connecticut for 60 years; and summered 30 years on Nantucket, MA. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Yale University, School of Fine Art in 1943, and was employed by Hamilton Standard for 18 years in their Art Department as a technical illustrator. After graduating from Yale she worked at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City from 1943-44. In 1944 she joined the American Red Cross to contribute to WWII effort, stationed mostly Southampton and London, England. After the war she wrote and illustrated books and did free-lance illustrating for London publishers, and then she returned to the States in 1947. She designed the shield for the Poquonock Fire Department, and in 1975 the Commemorative Medals for the Bicentennial Celebration for the town of Windsor, CT. She also designed stage sets for many years for the Windsor Jesters, and she taught art classes for children at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. from 1948-50. For more than thirty summers she painted and sold her artwork at her art gallery, Spindrift Gallery, on Old South Wharf on Nantucket Island.She was a member of many associations and societies, among them the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society and New England Watercolor Society. PROVENANCE: A Private Charleston SC Estate.

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