ARTIST: Virginia Moberly Schlueter (Missouri, 1901 - 1994)
TITLE: Forest Landscape
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Some paint losses. Some craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 30 x 30 inches / 76 x 76 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Schlueter was a life-long resident of the St. Louis, Missouri area. She graduated from the art school at Washington University in St. Louis. She was a painter of portraits and landscapes in acrylic, watercolor, pastels and oil.Schlueter participated in many individual and group exhibitions in area art galleries and in regional traveling shows. She was awarded numerous awards. She was an art instructor at Jefferson Barracks Hospital during World War II, and in the 1960s, she taught at the Art Center for Older Adults in St. Louis. She was a lifetime member of the St. Louis Artists' Guild.Her painting, Mississippi River Levee, Winter Scene, depicts a river boat docked perpendicular to the shore. The diagonal shore line on the lower part of the painting divides it in two, with the snow covered land at the bottom. The sky and its reflection on the water in yellows and oranges form a larger area at the top. The boat, positioned horizontally in the painting, is a very strong presence due to its size and dark color. Wooden pieces placed in the left lower quadrant are apparently from a small boat washed ashore.