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ALAN TOMPKINS Untitled.
Oil and black crayon on canvas board, circa 1940. 290x325 mm; 11 1/2x13 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Private collection, Chicago.
Tompkins (1907-2007) was born in New Rochelle, New York. He studied art history and graduated from Columbia University in 1929; he subsequently graduated with a second degree in 1933 from the Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, where he studied mural painting. Tompkins taught at the John Herron Art School, Cooper Union and Columbia University. He worked as a book illustrator and industrial designer and was active as a mural painter in the Works Progress Administration (his murals can still be seen in post offices in North Carolina and Indiana). Tompkins joined the Hartford Art School in the 1950s, becoming its director in 1957. He played a pivotal role in the formation of the University of Hartford when the Art School merged with the original Hillyer College and the Hartt College of Music.
