African American Black Woman Oil Painting Frank Ransley WPA Art Students League
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Terrific Portrait of African American woman in WPA or modernist 1930s-1950s style. Skillful execution and great composition with the interesting element in the upper left corner. Painting is signed upper right "Frank Ransley". Painting is oil on board measures 14" by 18", framed 18" by 22". Frank Ransley was a Chicago painter who studied at the Art Students League in New York and at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Here's some information about the artist and his wife, who was also a portrait painter: Kenneth Brown Ransley Kenneth Brown Ransley (March 21, 1893-June 12, 1989) was a female portrait artist who painted thousands of paintings in her lifetime. A native of Dawson, Ga., she studied art at the School of Art Institute of Chicago and met her husband, artist Frank T. Ransley, while in school. The couple settled in Park Ridge, Ill., where Kenneth painted portrait commissions and held open studio sessions with live models.Park Ridge attracted many artists. "Other artists who also lived and worked in Park Ridge include Albert Krehbiel and his wife, Dulah Evans Krehbiel, Alfonso Iannelli, Grant Wood, Eugene Romeo, Kenneth Brown Ransley."During World War II, she donated her talents to the war effort, visiting the Service Men's Center in Chicago twice a week to sketch portraits of enlisted men. She executed 1,400 or
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