Oil on artist board seascape painting of Rockport, Massachusetts by Xavier Barile. Size: 16 x 20 inches. Signed lower right and dated under his name 1942. Titled and signed verso as well. Inscribed verso top left Rockport, MA and below June 24, 1942. At this time Barile was head of the Art Dept. At Pueblo Junior College, in Pueblo, Colorado. In 1907, he immigrated from Italy with his family to Queens. He studied at Cooper Union, and at the Art Students League, where he studied with John Sloan, William de Leftwich Dodge, Louis Mora, and Victor Perard. He was director of the Barile Art School, from 1919 to 1939. He worked for the WPA, with Reginald Marsh on the murals of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House. He was head of the Pueblo Junior College Art Department, from 1939 to 1946. His work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.