Artist: De Martelly, John Stockton (American, 1903 - 1979)
Title: Give Us This Day
Date: c. 1937
Medium: lithograph on paper
Dimensions: image: 13.25 x 13.75 inches
Edition: edition of 250
Description: "John S. DeMartelly is one of the vigorous young artists to come out of the Middle West. Thomas Benton discovered him and brought his work to us as deserving of wide public recognition. Though born in Philadelphia DeMartelly now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where he heads the Department of Illustration and Graphic Arts at the Kansas City Art Institute. He received his art training at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; the Belle Arte, in Florence, Italy; and the Royal College of Arts in London. Though decidedly individualistic, his art has the feeling of El Greco. Recognition has come to him with the purchase of his works for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and private collections in London, Paris, Turin, and the United States. With all sincerity, we welcome DeMartelly to our roster as one whose importance in American art will grow with the years." ~Associated American Artists
Signature: pencil signed in lower right margin
Provenance: acquired from Associated American Artists, collector's envelop and documentation taped to reverse of frame
Frame Type: black wood frame
Frame Size: 21.5 x 21.25 inches

unexamined outside of frame, apart from minor discoloration to paper and mat, minor curling to paper, possible indications of foxing in margins