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DOX THRASH (1893 - 1965) Two Men on a Raft.
Watercolor, circa 1930-40. 229x425 mm; 9x16 3/4 inches.
With--Untitled (Study for a Mural), gouache over pencil, verso. An intriguing study for an exotic interior mural, with dancing female figures, is found on the verso.
Provenance: the artist; Edna Thrash, the artist's wife; Samuel and Sally Nowak, Philadelphia; Allan H. Nowak, Sunny Isles Beach, FL.
This double-sided work on paper reveals Trash's interest in depicting rural Southern life, and his desire to paint murals. Inspired by Chicago muralist and painter William Edouard Scott, Thrash designed a hospital mural with the nursery rhyme "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" in 1939, and made several other mural studies in the 1930s. However, due to a reorganization of the Federal Art Project shortly after Thrash's hospital commission, many mural projects were cancelled. It is not known if any of the murals Thrash designed were ever executed. Ittmann p. 4 and 147.
