Attributed to Adolfo Luis Halty, it does not have a COA. 31 x 31 inches. Medium: oil canvas. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1915 - 1974. Painter, architect, stage and set designer and translator of Latin American literature, Adolfo Luis Halty (aka Halty-Dube) was born in San Carlos, Uruguay.He taught architecture, painting and aesthetics in the United States and Uruguay at Columbia University, Ohio University, Escuela Municipal de Arte Dramatico (Montevideo), Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. In 1962, he was Visiting Andrew Mellon Professor of Art at the Carnegie Institute. Halty obtained a Bachelor's Degree in mathematics at the Académie de Poitiers, France, in 1935, and received his Master's in Architecture at the University of Montevideo in 1940. He designed theatre settings for plays by Cervantes, Supervielle, and Wilde, and won an international competition for the setting of Ravel's Bolero in Montevideo.Dr. Halty-Dube was associated with professional theatre in Latin America for many years before joining the faculty of San Fernando Valley State College, renamed in 1972 to California State University, Northridge. He has translated nine Latin American dramas and aided in the translation of six others.Adolfo Halty came to the U.S. in 1941 and was active as an artist and art critic. He has exhibited his work in Europe and the United States as well as in his own country Uruguay. Dr. Halty, who has won 26 awards, many of them first prizes in international competition, is presently (1972) exhibiting some of his works at the Fountain & Falls Gallery, 5201 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys." (Modern Art in Advertising). He remained in California after that exhibition.

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