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LENA GURR Rooftop Workers.
Oil on board, circa 1940. 750x447 mm; 29 1/2x17 1/2 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Ex-collection private collection, New Jersey.
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.
