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LENA GURR Fluttering Sails.
Oil on canvas board, circa 1950. 535x850 mm; 21x33 1/2 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto.
Ex-collection ACA Galleries, New York, with the original label; private collection, Massachusetts.
Gurr (1897-1992) was born in Brooklyn. She studied art at the Educational Alliance Art School and was awarded a scholarship to The Art Students League, New York, where she studied with John Sloan (1871-1951). Gurr had a prolific career in which she painted landscape scenes and still lifes, but her most noted works were the everyday city scenes that were laced with social commentary. She often painted in a semi-Cubist style, but always also tried to capture a sense of humanity within abstraction.
