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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
GIFFORD BEAL (1879-1956)
Shacks on the Dunes (Wingaersheek). Watercolor on paper, circa 1930. Inscribed, Shacks on the Dunes, Wingaersheek, on verso. 355x558 mm; 14x20 inches.
Exhibited: Kraushaar Galleries, NY, "Gifford Beal: Watercolors," May 1 - June 1, 2001.
Commisioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA), Gifford Beal completed three murals. In 1938 he finished his first project for a post office in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 1941 he created a mural for the Udal Department of the Interior, located in Washinton, DC. That same year Crestline Ohio received a newly constructed post office as a New Deal project, for which Gifford Beal contributed a mural.
