Vintage Abstract Mountainous Landscape Oil Painting Attributed to Ethel Magafan, Framed

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Beautiful oil on Masonite landscape painting. This piece features bold contrasting colors with sharp edged lines. It depicts a mountainous … Read more Beautiful oil on Masonite landscape painting. This piece features bold contrasting colors with sharp edged lines. It depicts a mountainous landscape. Modestly framed it is attributed to the famous muralist Ethel Magafan (1916-1993)
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Ethel Magafan was born August 10, 1916, in Chicago, Illinois. Raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado, she studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center with Frank Mechau, Boardman Robinson, and Peppino Mangravite, and was a member of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Ethel and her twin sister, Jenne, became widely known for their murals painted during the Depression. In the 1930s, Ethel received her first of seven Government commissions when she was commissioned to produce a painting for the U.S. Post Office in Auburn, Nebraska. Other paintings commissioned by the U.S. Government hang in the U.S. Senate Chamber, the Social Security Building, and the Recorder Deeds Building in Washington D.C., and in U.S. Post Offices in Wynne, Arkansas; Mudill, Oklahoma; and Denver, Colorado.







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