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CARL BRANDIEN View of Toledo.
Oil on canvas, 1931. 648x826 mm; 25 1/2x32 1/2 inches. Signed, inscribed and dated in oil, lower right recto.
Brandien (1886-1965) described himself as a "vagabond artist," whose many travels inspired his artistic subjects. In 1930, he and his wife embarked on a journey across Western Europe, eventually ending in Hawaii. Brandien re-settled in New York at the onset of World War II and began exhibiting his paintings at shows held at the Barbizon Plaza Art Gallery in conjunction with the 1939 World's Fair. The attention he received at these shows percipitated commissions from the Friar's Club and the Russian Club in New York, as well as from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who commissioned a series of the Pacific and Atlantic Fleets, now in the Hyde Park presidential collection.
