Alexander Redein Side Street, Princetown, New York C. 1960 Painting

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This artwork titled "Side Street, Princetown, New York" c 1960, is an oil painting on panel by noted American artist … Read more This artwork titled "Side Street, Princetown, New York" c 1960, is an oil painting on panel by noted American artist Alexander Redein, 1912-1990. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (panel) size is 14 x 18 inches, framed size is 22.25 x 26.25 inches. Framed in a wooden light brown/beige and gold rustic style frame, with painted off-white bevel. It is in excellent condition.

About the artist:

Alex Redein was born on January 21, 1912 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was a prominent member of the New York art community for many years. He studied at Yale School of Fine Art, The Art Students League, and in Mexico City. Along with Remo Farrugio, Byron Browne, Herbert and Henry Kallem, Joseph DeMartini, Michael Lekakis and many others he was part of the famous 28th Street group of modernists who congregated at the Henry and David Rothman Frame Shop and is increasingly becoming an object of study. Along with other members of the group, he summered and painted in Provincetown, Woodstock and Fire Island and is identified with those well-known art communities.

Exhibitions include Greer Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1947, National Academy of Design 1949, American Watercolor Society 1950, Butler Art Institute 1955, 1958, Farnsworth Museum 1950, Connecticut Museum of Art 1956, Philadelphia Art Alliance 1951, 1958, the Minnesota State Fair 1949, Pinacotheca Gallery 1944, and the John Heller Gallery.

Public collections include the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of Art, the Corcoran Institute, the National Academy of Design, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Ein Harod Museum of Art in Israel.

Alexander Redein died in New York City, New York on August 25,1990. See less