Francis Cunningham - Expressionist Fruit Still Life With Drapes, Signed (Oil on Canvas)

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Francis Cunningham - Expressionist Fruit Still Life with Drapes, Signed (Oil on Canvas). Expressionist still life with banana, apples, and … Read more Francis Cunningham - Expressionist Fruit Still Life with Drapes, Signed (Oil on Canvas). Expressionist still life with banana, apples, and lemons on a glass pedestal/stand. Signed in the lower right quadrant. In good condition with wear consistent with age. Refer to photos for details.

Size:  16 x 20 in

Francis Cunningham is an American figurative painter known for working across three genres – nude, landscape and still-life —and for being an influential master instructor. He co-founded the New Brooklyn School of Life, Painting, Drawing & Sculpture, Inc. (1980–1983), and the New York Academy of Art in 1983 with sculptor Barney Hodes and Stuart Pivar. Cunningham has had one-man shows in Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York City, where he exhibited at the Waverly, Harry Salpeter and Hirschl & Adler galleries. He has also been featured in solo shows in Stockholm and Copenhagen, and participated in group exhibitions extensively throughout the U.S. He currently maintains studios in Manhattan and in the bucolic western part of Massachusetts, known as the Berkshires. Cunningham graduated from Harvard College in 1953. After two years as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, he attended the Art Students League of New York (1955–1959), where he studied drawing and anatomy with Roberty Beverly Hale and painting with Edwin Dickinson. He taught for four years at the Art Students League of New York. Among other awards, Cunningham received the Artist Equity’s Benjamin West Clinedist Medal (2003) for “the achievement of exceptional artistic merit”. He is the recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant (1973). He was elected Academician of the National Academy of Design in 1994. He was a Fellow with the Bogliasco Foundation (1997). His work has been purchased by The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (Five Continents) See less