Lucile Blanch
Circus Acrobats Regionalism - ( Friends with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo ), 1934
Oil on Canvas
36 × 26 × 1 in / 91.4 × 66 × 2.5 cm
$ 30,000.00
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As they take center stage, four acrobats are depicted, forming an architectural structure composed of contorted human bodies. The small gallery of onlookers displays a variety of expressions. Painted during...
As they take center stage, four acrobats are depicted, forming an architectural structure composed of contorted human bodies. The small gallery of onlookers displays a variety of expressions. Painted during the peak of the "American Regionalism" movement, the painting gives insight into what was most likely a small itinerant circus. Lucile Blanch completed the painting a year after she received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1933 and a few years before she worked with artist Philip Evergood and George Picken in administrating the WPA Project in New York. Signed lower right. Framed size 42 x 32. After Blanch received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1933, her art was featured in a number of important venues, including the Whitney Museum of American Art. From 1932 to 1943, the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. purchased her works for their collections