Lot 231: Everett Spruce (1908-2002)

Everett Spruce (1908-2002)
Desert
signed 'E. Spruce' (lower right)
oil on board
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1950.

Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, Contemporary American Painters, 1950.
Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, 20 American Artists of the 20th Century: A Comparative Study of the Artists' Vision, March 28-April 25, 1951, no. 45.
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, 60th Annual American Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture, October 25-December 16, 1951, no. 158.
Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, Communicating Art from the Midwest Collections: American and European Paintings and Sculpture 1835-1955, October 13-November 6, 1955.
New York, American Federation of Arts, and elsewhere, Everett Spruce Retrospective, October 1, 1959-October 29, 1961, no. 11.

'rt Institute of Chicago, 60th Annual American Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, Chicago, Illinois, 1951, n.p., no. 158.
J.P. Leeper, Everett Spruce, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1959, p. 26, no. 11, illustrated.

Mortimer Levitt Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1951.

Property from the edmundson art foundation, Inc., sold to benefit the Acquisitions Fund