Mixed-media, oil and collage with paper and cloth on masonite, 1961. 1215x915 mm; 48x36 1/4 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto, counter signed and titled in oil, verso.
Ex-collection Galerie Internationale, New York, with the label verso; private collection, New York; private collection, Chicago.
Greene (1903-1906) was a pioneering west coast Abstract Expressionist. Born in Los Angeles, she graduated from University of California at Los Angeles and studied during the 1940s with Stanton MacDonald Wright, Millard Sheets and Richard Haines. Her first solo exhibition, "Lucille Brown Greene Paintings," was shown at the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, in 1957, and she exhibited nationally in the following decades. Greene resided most of her career in Long Beach and was also an art instructor at Santa Monica City College and board member/juror for the California Watercolor Society.
