ETHEL MAGAFAN (1916 1993) Secluded Valley

Sale 2678 - Lot 114

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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000

ETHEL MAGAFAN (1916-1993)
Secluded Valley.

Tempera on illustration board, circa 1960. 610x871 mm; 24x34¼ inches. Signed lower left, and signed, titled, and inscribed with the artist's address, verso.

Provenance
The artist, Woodstock.
Midtown Galleries, New York, after 1962 (label).
[with] Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio, circa 1977-78 (label).
Private collection.
Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, December 9, 2017, lot 177.
Private collection, New York.

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Ethel Magafan and her twin sister Jeanne were raised in Colorado Springs and studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center under Frank Mechau, whom they assisted with WPA murals. In 1938, through the 1940's Magafan received her own mural commissions, many of which were Western themed. Magafan's early works from her solo exhibitions, in 1938 at the Denver Art Museum, in the late 1930's at the Art Institute of Chicago were well received. After spending the 1940's living in Los Angeles and Wyoming, Magafan settled in Woodstock and married fellow artist Bruce Currie in 1946. While her style became more abstract, Magafan continued to be inspired by the natural world around her. She found greater success, and had solo exhibitions with Jacques Seligmann Galleries and Midtown Galleries in New York during the 1950's and 1960's. Magafan was elected a National Academician by the National Academy of Design in 1968. Her work has been exhibited and collected by some of the most important institutions in the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.