Anatol Shulkin, Female Nude, n.d. (1950s?)

Oil on masonite

Reverse with a partially extant exhibition label from the “Wat … or Club”

Small parts of three other labels, one reading “#66 Shulkin” are visible at upper left

31 x 25 in. (78.75 x 63.5 cm)

Inv. no. ab_29916

Born in Russia in 1899, Anatol Shulkin (1899–1961) emigrated to the United States at the age of twelve. He studied with the American Realist painter George Bellows at the Art Students League before taking additional classes at the National Academy of Design. He is best known for a series of murals he completed in the 1930s and 1940s under the Works Project Administration. His 1934 mural depicting American life during the Depression once decorated the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel, now the Trump Parc East, at 106 Central Park South. His mural dedicated to the local paper industry in the Post Office in Canajoharie, New York is still extant. After World War II, he turned entirely to easel painting which he showed through the Midtown Galleries and exhibited at various national and regional biennials.

Provenance:

 Collection of the artist

By descent within the family