A Reginald Pollack (American, 1924-2001) signed oil painting. The modern, expressive work features figures around a fruit tree, with a swirling green background and red foreground. The work is signed into the paint on the lower left, and dated 10/1/79. Reginald Pollack was born in 1924. He has lived and worked in New York, Paris, Provence, Rome, Virginia, and California. After early art studies at the High School of Music and Art in New York, he gained studio experience with Moses Soyer. After WWII, he returned to New York in 1961, he was appointed Visiting Critic in Art at Yale University. For the next ten years Pollack exhibited regularly with the Peridot Gallery in New York. After a move to Los Angeles in 1963, he exhibited with the Felix Landau Gallery and the Jefferson Gallery. His work entered many private and public collections, including the Hirshhorn Museum, Museum of Modem Art, National Museum of American Art, and Whitney Museum. Most recently the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a painting of his Paris days. During 1997-1998 it was shown nationally in several museums as part of the Metropolitan Museum's traveling group exhibition entitled "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915-1995". Bio courtesy of AskArtSite: 7" x 11" H 15 W 16.5 D 0.5 Weight 2 lbs