Andree Ruellan Vintage American Modernist NY Social Realism Art California Still Life Surrealist Oil Painting Mardi Gras Mask
Andrée Ruellan (April 6, 1905 – July 15, 2006) was an American artist whose realist work has modernist overtones and commonly depicts everyday scenes in American South and New York City. Born in Manhattan of French descent, she spent her youth there and in Paris and eventually made her home near the artist colony in Woodstock, New York. Her paintings, prints, watercolors, and drawings are known for their depiction ordinary people at work and play. They are held by many American museums and private collectors.
Ruellan's work has been widely collected in American museums, including, (but not limited to):
* Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
* Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
* Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina
* Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
* Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
* Michelson Museum of Art, Marshall, Texas
* Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
* William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City,
* Philadelphia Museum of Art
* Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
* San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
* Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah
* Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
* University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
* Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Andrée Ruellan
(1905-2006)
American Modernist, Realist, Surrealism
Oil on Artist Board
Measurements are approximately 22” X 30”
Still life
Mardi Gras mask and vase with paint brushes
Estimated date of creation, approximately 1949; ; (Ruellan's paintings from this period often contain children in Mardi Gras costumes, and masks; with darker, surrealist undertones)
There are some chips and minor abrasions, through-out the painting. Paint is in stable condition. Signature/Initials are written, in a slightly darker orange paint,lower left, which may be difficult to read, on the images, and easier under the zoom button. Due to the fact that not everyone may be able to read the signature, painting is listed as an attribution to the NY/California/American modernist painter, Andree' Ruellan.
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