Lot 285: BLANCHE BERNSTEIN

(American 1910-1998) "The Stone Quarry" circa 1930's. Oil on canvas, signed on tacking edge, mid right. 20"x24" (unframed). For twenty years, Blanche Bernstein painted behind-the-scenes views of the Ringling Bros. Famous clowns. In 1958, she painted scenes of San Francisco's "Barbary Coast" area. With her sister, Eliz. Yakovlev, she conducted The Sisters Arts Gallery in Greenwich Village, NYC, for three years. She painted in casein, egg tempera, oil, pastel, and acrylic, and widely exhibited throughout her career.