"Nightgale" Surreal Still Life in a Blue Landscape Style of Yves Tanguy and Dali by Kennard M Harris

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"Nightgale" Birds Fly in a Surreal Still Life in a Blue Landscape

Surreal landscape by Kennard M. Harris (American, b-1930). … Read more "Nightgale" Birds Fly in a Surreal Still Life in a Blue Landscape

Surreal landscape by Kennard M. Harris (American, b-1930). A table is set with a broken glass and surreal objects, becoming a landscape; roiling clouds lurk nearby as a flock of Nightingales fly in the distance.
Kennard Studied art at the Art Center School in Los Angeles
Signed with his Monogam lower left
The Hammer Galleries ink stamp on paper backing and title "Nightgale #62,
a label 14. Nightgale on board. Possibly indication of a number of paintings exhibited at the Hammer Galleries.
Image, 24.5"H x 20"W
Frame, 27.5"H x 23"W x 1.5"D

EXHIBITED:
Hammer Galleries, New York, 1962
First: San Diego, Orr's Gallery, Kennard Harris: Trompe L'oeil and Still Life Paintings, 11 July-7 August 1965, no. 25.
Second: San Diego, Orr's Gallery, Kennard Harris: Trompe L'oeil and Still Life Paintings, 11 July-7 August 1965, no. 43 (illustrated p. 21).
Third: San Diego, Orr's Gallery, Kennard Harris: Trompe L'oeil and Still Life Paintings, 6 July-9 August 1969, no. 57 (illustrated p. 21).
Fourth: San Diego, Orr's Gallery, Kennard Harris: Trompe L'oeil and Still Life Paintings, 6 July-9 August 1969, no. 59 (illustrated p. 8).
Fifth: San Diego, Orr's Gallery, Kennard Harris: Trompe L'oeil and Still Life Paintings, 6 July-9 August 1969, no. 58 (illustrated p. 14). See less