Description: BESSIE LASKY (1888 - 1972) OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS SIGNED BOTTOM RIGHT. DATES TO THE 30S CONDITION IS GOOD FOR AGE. SOME SCUFFS AND SCRATCHES. CANVAS HAS BEEN RELINED. SOME INPAINTING MAINLY TOP RIGHT AND LEFT OF CANVAS. UNVARNISHED. CANVAS 20 X 16 INCHES Bessie Mona Ginsburg Lasky (1888 - 1972) was active/lived in California, New York, Massachusetts. Bessie Lasky is known for Mission landscape and still life painting, poetry, music.A painter, born in Boston, MA on April 30, 1888, Bessie Ginsberg was educated in the public schools of Boston and studied at the New England Conservatory of Music. In 1925 she began her art studies with William Silva and Felicie Waldo Howell.She was active in New York City until the late 1920s; she then settled in Los Angeles with her husband, Jesse L. Lasky, a motion picture magnate.A poet as well as painter and musician, her book of poems entitled Songs of the Twilight was published in 1935. She is best known for her series of California mission paintings.She died in Los Angeles on Aug. 17, 1972.Member: NatI Assn of Women Painters & Sculptors; North Shore AA; New Haven Print & Clay Club; AFA; Women Painters of the West. Exh: Gumps (SF), 1930, 1939; Oakland Art Gallery, 1933 (solo); LACMA, 1933, 1941, 1966; Stendahl Gallery (LA), 1934, 1936; Ebell Club (LA), 1934; The Gallery (Palm Springs), 1967.In: Newark Museum. AAASource: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Price: 1500 USD
Location: Northridge, California
End Time: 2023-10-23T01:48:49.000Z
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Artist: BESSIE LASKY
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Signed By: BESSIE LASKY
Size: Medium
Signed: Yes
Period: Art Deco (1920-1940)
Material: Canvas
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Region of Origin: California, USA
Framing: Unframed
Subject: Botanical, Fish & Water Animals, Fishing, Flowers, Gardens, Inspirational, Landscape, Motivational, New York, Seaside, Still Life, Women
Personalize: No
Type: Painting
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 16 in
Theme: Art, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Floral, Inspirational, Nature
Style: Impressionism
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Oil Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 20 in
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
