WALTER AUGUSTUS SIMON (1916 - 1979) The Iron Eagle.
Oil on cotton canvas, circa 1960. 914x1016 mm; 36x40 inches. Signed in oil, lower right.
Provenance: the artist, Montclair, NJ; private collection.
Exhibited: The Twenty-Ninth Annual New Jersey State Exhibition, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, 1960, with the label on the upper stretcher verso.
This large oil painting is one of a series of New York City's Second Avenue, painted while Simon was completing his PhD in art history at New York University.
