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INTERESTING RURAL IOWA SCENE PAINTINGS SIGNED

INTERESTING RURAL IOWA SCENE PAINTINGS SIGNED. Comprising four paintings by Cedar Falls, Iowa native Hazel Helen Livingston Engel (1906 - 1992). Including a watercolor fall landscape with trees and haystacks, an acrylic winter landscape with corn shocks and barn, a watercolor summer landscape with red farm house, and another rural landscape with red barns in watercolor. Each piece signed and measuring approximately 14 inches x 18 inches and contained in matching glazed frames. Provenance: The estate of the artist Hazel Livingston Engel is one of four Blackhawk County, Iowa women artists who gained strong local & regional attention over the past six decades. Together with her niece Marie Cook (1918-2011), Lela M. Briggs (1896-1951), Alma H. Held (1889-1988) & Jessie P. Loomis (1912-1966) they produced an abundance of work representing the rural Iowa experience & local areas of interest. All were members of the Waterloo Art Association where they frequently met & took classes. Some were academy trained & others not. Briggs was a student of the Chicago Art Institute and Stone City & Held, was a teaching associate of Grant Wood and who studied at the Academy of Design in New York, where she won the Suydam Bronze medal for life drawing. Hazel Engel was born & raised in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She is the sister of famous early aviator Jonathan Livingston for whom author Richard Bach reportedly saw as one of the inspirations for his bestselling 1970 book, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull". She graduated from Iowa State Teachers College where she studied art. After graduating in the 1920's she took a job as the art curriculum director for Butler County, Iowa. She apparently did not produce much, if any, during the proceeding 15 years until she moved back to Cedar Falls, around 1947. Her paintings have a naïve innocent quality about them. Her subjects are either local scenes or fanciful tranquil imagery with melodramatic titles. Her better works have a strong regionalist feel and while prolific her works seldom come up for sale. She continued to paint into her eighties until severe arthritis prevented her from holding a brush. SHIPPING NOTICE: Jackson's is your sole and only source for one stop packing and shipping. With over 50 years of experience, our professional, affordable and efficient in-house shipping department will be happy to provide you a fair and reasonable shipping quote on this lot. Simply email us before the auction for a quick quote: shipping@jacksonsauction.com or call 1-800-665-6743. Jackson's can expertly pack and ship to meet any of your needs. To ensure quality control Jackson's DOES NOT release to third party shippers.

HAZEL LIVINGSTON ENGEL (American 1906-1999) "Queen In Her Day" oil on masonite, signed lower left. Verso with exhibition label. 22"x28".