Oil on canvas, 1962. 870x1120 mm; 34x44 inches. Initialed in oil, lower right recto. Signed, titled and dated in oil, verso.
Ex-collection the artist's estate, New York; The Art Students League, New York.
Gonzalez (1898-1993) was born in Almeria, Spain and lived in Argentina and Mexico before studying at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1921 to 1923 and settling in the United States. During the 1930s, he completed commissions as a muralist for the WPA, mostly in Louisiana. He worked in a variety of styles throughout his career, creating figurative and abstract works in both sculpture and painting. He taught art around the United States, even establishing a summer school on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and his work is included in museums across the United States including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
