Lot 677: Paul Gerchik, American 1915-1998- Children dancing

Paul Gerchik, American 1915-1998- Children dancing in a circle; brush and black ink and watercolour heightened with white, signed, 43.5x55.7cm: together with two other works on paper by the same hand one of a mother and child and the other of a woman seated half-length, both in gouache, mixed technique, both signed, 56x43.5 and 56x43cm., (3) (unframed). Note: Paul Gerchik was born in New York city and received his art education at the Art Students League in New York. He subsequently taught drawing and painting at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Later he moved to Los Angeles where, at the outbreak of the war he was appointed an official war artist by the United States Army, creating political cartoons for army newspapers. He pioneered and developed the use of art therapy for wounded soldiers in military hospitals,. After the war he worked as a director and production designer in the film industry in Los Angeles. He continued to paint and to exhibit widely on the West Coast. His work has been exhibited at the National Gallery, Washington DC, the ACA Gallery , New York, the Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio, The Los Angles Museum of Art, The De Young Museum, San Francisco, the La Jolla Art Museum and the Long Beach Museum, California.