von Schmidt, Harold

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von Schmidt, Harold

Price: $4,250.00

Description: Woman bringing food to field workers

Comment: By the late 1920’s von Schmidt had, at least pretty much, moved away from smaller gouache (often black and white) works on to the large oils which he felt allowed him to express himself as the story dictated. Here’s a really nicely painted one. He gets so much across through his use of light and the decreasing amount of detail as one moves farther and farther away from the source of the illumination. Figure of the central woman was posed by “Reb,” Harold’s wife.

Price: $4,250 + $150 shipping.

Information

Artist	Harold von Schmidt (1893-1982)
Caption	“After that she superintended the carrying out of the basket of tin cups, held an umbrella over the doughnuts, passed, drenched and floundering and radiant, among the muddy laborers with her three women.”
Condition	Very good, light surface dirt, suitably framed.
Medium	Oil on canvas
Publication Information	Woman’s Home Companion story illustration, published in either 1930 or 1931.
Signature	signed lower right (1930)
Size	27 x 40”