April 17, 2024
Lot of 4 WPA era Portraits of Women - Bernard Segal estate O/C
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Lot of 4 WPA era 1930s portrait paintings of women by Bernard Segal of Bucks County, PA. 3 unsigned, 1 signed. Fair to good estate condition. Smallest measures 15 x 13 inches; then 16 x 12; 16 x 20; largest measures 28 x 20 inches. The larges painting pictured (final picture) in the grouping is signed at the lower left Bernie Segal and dated 1930 . All are in poor to fair estate condition, and require various levels of cleaning, stretching and inpaint. We recently obtained a number of paintings by this artist, and can offer the following information. Bernard Segal was from Cincinnatti, Ohio, where his father Alfred Segal was a noted columnist/editor/writer. Bernard Segal attended Cincinatti University, the Cincinatti Art Academy, and also studied at the Art Student League during the 1920s and 30s. Works from this period range from the Academic American School style, works that reflect the WPA style, and also Modernist pieces. During WWII, Segal worked as a cartoonist providing material for a GI paper called 10-SHUN that was published in Greensboro, NC. After the War, he authored a comic strip in the New York Herald Tribune called Honey and Hank, that tracked the domestic life of a GI after the WWII . During this time, he signed his cartoon strip SEEG . He also illustrated a number of books that were published by the Union of American
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