Framed Original Acrylic On Canvas Open Air/ Landscape Painting Signed Kingman

Framed Original Acrylic On Canvas Open Air/ Landscape Painting Signed Kingman. This beautiful piece of art depicts a wooded stream with mountains in the background. It is in good vintage condition with minimal signs of age. Canvass does need restretching but no paint flaking or holes in canvass. Frame is a gorgeous and very ornate gold tone wood. It is in good pre-owned condition with minimal signs of age but may have some dings and wear. Frame: 24 1/2” x 28 1/2”, 2 1/2” wide American artist Eugene Kingman (1909-1975). Murals Eugene Kingman won three commissions from the United States Treasury Art Project during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal era in the 1930s to create murals, which are still displayed in the main lobby of U.S. Post Officesin Kemmerer, WY, Hyattsville, MD, and East Providence, RI. A special mural, which Eugene Kingman painted in 1948, was displayed in the New York Times lobby for over 40 years. Donated to the Joslyn Castle Trust in Omaha Nebraska for restoration, this Eugene Kingman/New York Times Mural now has a new permanent home in the Omaha Public Library. PAINTINGS Seven National Park Paintings for the 1931 Paris Expo – NPS Symposium Poster – Celebrating the 2016 National Park Service Centennial in Santa Fe, New Mexico. An overview of Kingman’s Nebraska paintings can be found in Kingman’s Nebraska, a collection constituting the celebrated artist’s tribute to the Great Prairie-Plains of Mid 20th Century Nebraska. Also, a fascinating article and 13 images of Eugene Kingman’s oil paintings in this 1937 issue of National Geographic Magazine, featuring both Yosemite and Crater Lake National Parks. ILLUSTRATIONS As an undergraduate at Yale Eugene Kingman contributed regularly to The Yale Record. This magazine, established in 1872, was a leading college humor magazine for over a hundred years. Kingman’s illustrations are documented with comments by author and archivist Donald Watson, The Yale Record Corporation.