WALTER MEIGS (1918-1988, America), 'Illuminated Horizon', Oil and textured substrate on canvas, 1976. Signed, titled and dated on verso. Framed: 17.5”h x 19”W; Canvas: 16.5"h x 18.18"w. Includes gallery card from opening in 1981 at the Foster Harmon Galleries of American Art. Meigs has work in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. 1969.47.30. BIOGRAPHY: Studied at Syracuse University, The State University of Iowa and the Ecole de Beaux Arts at Fontainebleau. He headed the Art Department at the University of Connecticut and in 1960 was featured in a series of exhibitions with Lee Nordness in New York, “Distinguished Exhibitions of American Art” and was included in “ART: USA” an international traveling exhibition of American art and crafts assembled and sponsored by Johnson Wax Company. Through the 1960s and 1970s he lived between Greece, the Bahamas, Spain and the Canary Islands exhibiting through Foster Harmon Galleries of American Art.
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Excellent, estate condition.