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MAY 2023 DECORATIVE & FINE ART SALE
Lot 222:
Bruce Handiside Mitchell (1908 – 1963), expressionist oil on board painting "Jazz Orchestra from the Wings." Signed lower right.Provenance: Doyle New York, Doyle at Home 06.25.2014, lot 132.Note: Bruce Mitchell is known for Musician genre-jazz painting, teaching, and magazine war artist. A student of jazz himself, he used the music and musicians of jazz as inspiration for his artwork. He frequently painted musicians as they performed live, resulting in works with vivid, animated strokes. Mitchell worked as an artist war correspondent for LIFE magazine during World War II. He was known to have taught at Bucknell University, and some of his papers reside at Susquehanna University. He also painted murals for the U.S. postal service in the 1930s including Columbia Bridge, Brownsville Pennsylvania. His paintings hang in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum and Whitney Museum in New York City; the Duncan-Philips Memorial and Library of Congress in Washington DC; the William Rockhill-Nelson Museum in Kansas City; Isaac Delgado Museum in New Orleans; and the University of Arizona Museum, Tucson; and Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Dimensions: 26 3/8 x 19 1/2 in., (67 x 49.5 cm.)
Condition: Perfect, framed under glass.
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