Beautiful Vance Kirkland still life watercolor, 26.5 x 22.5 inches. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1904 - 1981. Born Convoy, OH, Nov. 3, 1904; died Denver, CO, May 1981. Painter, specialized in watercolor. Teacher. Studied at Colorado Fine Arts Center; Cleveland School of Arts; Kansas City Art Institute; Art Students League, New York. Pupil of Henry G. Keller; Frank N. Wilcox. Director of School of Art at the University of Denver from1929-32 and 1946-69. Founded the Kirkland School of Art in Denver, CO in 1932 and ran it until 1946. Painted a mural, " Cattle Round-Up" for the Eureka Post Office in 1938. A television documentary, "Vance Kirkland's Visual Language" was aired by over 100 PBS stations between 1994-96.

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