Exhibited American abstract oil painting by Virginia Banks.
Housed in the original artist made custom frame and bears labels from 'Painting of the Year, 1948' and Grand Central Moderns Gallery, New York.
Title: 'Lobster Buoys'
Date: Mid to late 1940s
Medium: Oil on stretched canvas.
Measurements: 26 inches by 48 inches sight size, and 34.75 inches by 57.75 inches by 2.25 inches overall including framing.
Provenance: From the estate of the artist.

About the artist: Virginia Banks (1900-1985) was an American modernist artist associated with the Pacific Northwest. Banks was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1920. She received a BFA from Smith College in 1941, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. In the 1950s Banks married, and moved with her husband to Seattle, WA. Although Banks called Seattle her home for the remainder of her life, and was active in the Northwest art scene, she never assimilated into the Northwest School of Art thatÂ’s characteristics include Northwest Native culture, Asian aesthetics, and diffused lighting. Virginia instead tended to lean on her influences from her training as a young artist. Later in her career Banks ventured into abstract expression, and then realism, a trend common with 20th century American artists. Her early abstracts works of the 1940s and 50s are the most sought after and consequently command the highest price at galleries and auctions.

Good original condition, back of canvas has spotting.