Sam Thal
Indigenous Americana, ca. 1945. Oil on masonite, signed in graphite lower left, titled on the reverse, 26” x 32” plus frame. Born in New York City, Sam Thal lived most of his life in Boston on Marlborough Street. Widely exhibited in the late 1930s, he was an instructor for the WPA Federal Art Project. His work is in numerous important collections and museums. Complete biography on request. In this work, early Regionalist imagery, such as barns,
is transformed through postwar precisionist
abstraction. $7,500