Jack Savitsky (American, 1910–1991)Village of Silver Creek, 1920Signed and dated 70 bottom left, titled verso, oil on panel.14 7/8 x 33 in. (37.8 x 83.8cm)together with:With These HandsSigned and dated 75 bottom right, titled bottom left, oil on artist's board.14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4cm)together with:CrucifixionSigned bottom right, oil on panel.Executed circa 1970.8 1/2 x 4 in. (21.6 x 10.2cm)together with:Lansford, Carbon County, Pennsylvania Coal TownSigned bottom right, titled bottom left, titled and dated '64 verso, crayon and colored pencil on paper.18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61cm)Unframed(4)PROVENANCE:The Artist.The Collection of Sterling and Dorothy Strauser.Private Collection, Princeton, New Jersey (by descent in family).note:The present lot will be accompanied by July 1978 copy of the Valley Gazette, Lansford, Pa., featuring a large black and white photograph of Savitsky on the front cover in coal miners clothes and equipment- dedicated to "My dear friends Mr. and Mrs. Strausser (sic) from Coal Miner Jack Savitsky, 1978, Lansford, Pa.""Folk painters like Savitsky work within the tradition. He works in the same tradition that Yugoslav folk artists or the Russian folk artists or the Czechoslovakian folk artists. When you look at his work, you see the same treatment of line and same repetition. You see the tendency to become decorative rather than profound. Of course, occasionally, there is a profound example." - Sterling Strauser in an interview with Lynda Hartigan of the National Museum of American Art, August 10, 1989.