Alice Scott Scandland - 'Charleston Flower Sellers

Bidding Supports: Folk Art Society of America (Richmond, VA)

Item Number
141
Value:
380 USD
Online Close:
2022-10-16 00:00:00.0  –  Bid Extension
Bid History:
2 Bids

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Description

Watercolor on paper depicting flower sellers, signed and dated lower right. Matted and under glass in modern gilt frame; sight 15"W x 21 3/4"H; frame 23"W x 30"H; frame with minor abrasions.

Item Special Note

Alice Scott Scanland (1924-2005) Alice Scott Scanland, who painted under the name Alice Scott, was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1924. She is best known for her depictions of the American South, especially her figurative and genre paintings of African American subjects, though she also painted still-life's, landscapes and regional scenes of her native South Carolina and her later homes in Pensacola and Tallahassee, Florida. While living in Charleston, Scanland became interested in theater. She was commissioned to paint a group of artworks for the opera Porgy and Bess, that toured with the New York company.