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ELAINE WESLEY Untitled.
Mixed-media on board mounted on artist's board painted white, 1988. 655x505 mm; 26x20 inches. Dated "July 1988" in ink, verso. With the artist's estate ink stamp, verso.
Provenance: Estate of the artist, New York; James Cox Gallery, Woodstock; private collection, Chicago.
Wesley (1923-2007) studied at the Art Students League, New York in 1946 under Harry Sternberg and Nahum Tschacbasov, and took further courses at the Pratt Institute, New York, to pursue a career in advertising. After a short stint in the advertising industry, Wesley embarked on a career as a fine artist. She showed at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; The Brooklyn Museum; Artists Equity, New York; Terrain Gallery, New York and the Waverly Gallery, New York. Her abstract style of repeated patterns frequently reveals the influence of the work of Anni Albers in particular.
