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LEON WALL Remembrance.
Oil on canvas, 1959. 730x1325 mm; 29x52 1/4 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto, and titled and dated "Jan. 2 '59" in oil, on the stretcher verso.
Ex-collection Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, with the label; private collection, New Jersey.
Wall (1916-1980) was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania and studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. Early in his career, like many other American artists of his generation, he painted in a Social Realist style. He won a Tiffany Fellowship and worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art specializing in Persian Art. In the 1950s he embraced Abstract Expressionism, gaining early prominence and exhibiting at the Betty Parsons Gallery (known for their early promotion of Abstract Expressionism).
