Dec 15, 2015 - Sale 2402

Sale 2402 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ANN TANKSLEY (1934 - )
Bonitas Flores.

Oil on canvas, mounted to masonite board, 2003. 254x203mm; 10x8 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left.

Provenance: private collection, New York.

Ann Tanksley, born in Pittsburgh and now a resident of New York, is a figurative painter and printmaker who has developed a large following. A graduate of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, she also studied at the Art Students League, Parsons School of Design, the New School for Social Research and the Printmaking Workshop. She has received several corporate commissions from the Coors Brewing Company, Pepsi Cola Company, Absolut Vodka, and Colgate-Palmolive. Her work is in the collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Johnson Publishing Company and the Hewitt Collection.