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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Painting - Abstract Landscape
Object Number
1953-17-60
Description
Abstract acrylic painting in greens, yellows and browns. Written on back in black ink and pencil respectively: "from Austin Purves/Litchfield, Conn/Study for design for Pepsi-Cola painting./Putnam's Brook/1947."
Comment
Born in Philadelphia, Austin M. Purves Jr. (1900-1977) lived in the East Litchfield section of Litchfield for the last 40 years of his life. Purves studied art at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and the Académie Julian in Paris, France, before opening a studio in New York, where he was director of the day and night schools at the Cooper Union. After moving to Litchfield, Purves taught art at Bennington College and at Yale Art School and was a member of the Architectural League of New York, the National Society of Mural Painters, and the (then newly-formed) Hartford Art School. Over the course of his career Purves did commission work for R. H. Macy & Co., the Folger Memorial Library in Washington, D.C., the American Battle Monument in Draguignan, France, the 1939 World’s Fair, various churches, ship lines and private clients, among others. In addition to commission work, Purves drew primarily from people and nature for his own personal sketches and paintings.
Category
Date Made
1947
Dimensions
Overall Width 11.125"; Length 1'1.25"
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