Miracle of the Gulls

Art

Identifier:
Hinc32
circa 1950
Description
"Miracle of the Gulls" by Jessie Larsen is an oil on masonite painting. It is signed lower mid-right. In a cubist style with impasto painting technique, Larsen depicts two large seagulls with wheat stalks and crickets. Behind the seagulls are a man and woman in joyful prayer in the fields and a mountainous background with many small seagulls in the sky. Colors are white and many tints, greens, purples, blues, browns, yellows and black. The 4 inch wide gray frame is original. Estimated date of the painting is in the 1950s.
Dimensions: 76.2 cm;60.96 cm;0 cm;0 cm;;0 cm;These are the dimensions of the painted masonite as measured from the back. The overall measurements with frame are 31 X 36.875 inches.