Paul Wescott (American, 1904-1970) impressionist oil painting on board depicting the Louvre as seen from the river Seine in Paris, France. Artwork in solid wood stepped gold frame measures 10.75" x 12.75". Provenance: From a West Chester, Pennsylvania collection. The consignor’s parents worked for Paul Wescott and Allison Farmer Wescott and periodically received paintings as gifts or payment from the artists. Artwork and frame are in very good condition.
From AskArt:
Paul Wescott was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1904 and attended the Art Institute of Chicago. He also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he received the Toppan Landscape Prize and the Cresson European Traveling Scholarship in 1930. Upon his return from Europe in 1932, he assumed the directorship of the art department of the Hill School in Pottstown, PA, where he taught until 1952. Wescott lived in West Chester, PA and summered at his house in Friendship, Maine.
The timelessness of his landscape and coastal paintings, always done in muted and permeating colors, achieves the quiet yet powerful tonality of nature. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the National Academy of Design. Paul Wescott’s paintings are held in a number of important permanent collections including the William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Butler Institute of American Art, the University of Delaware, and the Delaware Art Museum.
