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WALTER AUGUSTUS SIMON (1916 - 1979)
The Iron Eagle
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Oil on cotton canvas, circa 1960. 914x1016 mm; 36x40 inches. Signed in oil, lower right.
Provenance: the artist, Montclair, NJ; private collection.
Exhibited:
The Twenty-Ninth Annual New Jersey State Exhibition
, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair,
NJ, 1960, with the label on the upper stretcher verso.
This large oil painting is one of a series of NewYork City’s Second Avenue, painted while Simon
was completing his PhD in art history at NewYork University.
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