A Bout Black & White A proponent both as a

A proponent both as a critic and painter of the American realist school he must have enjoyed the irony of winning second prize to Picasso’s first at the Carnegie Institute’s International Exhibition of Modern Painting in 1930

mostly selling for a few hundred here and there and I feel a certain poignancy that she is now remembered for these ordinary little pot boilers rather than the early oils that augured such a dazzling future

I wonder then how knowing his public would have been about the two ladies walking arm in arm in the background

I bought this from the great Grant Waters the author of the eponymous Art Dictionary and it has hung in my last two houses

Sheffer’s work is presumably an illustration intended for publication in a mainstream magazine

A Bout Black & White A proponent both as a