Original Lumen Martin Winter - Signed Two Horses 16 x 12 Watercolor

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This is a water color of Two Horses on Rag PaperSize is 16 x 12 inchesSigned on Front "Lumen"Front is inscribed "The first twenty six years are the most difficult - There are better days ahead - To Grace A Happy Anniversary! from Your Team Mate 1974 with Much Love Lumen"Comes with a letter from the family stating that it was in Lumen Winter's studio at the time of his death.This is being sold by the Artist's Family - Catherine Winter's Collection (Lumen Winter's Daughter)We are not artists, so we give you our best guess for style and medium.I do combine shipping.Lumen Martin Winter died in 1982. All of his artwork transferred to his wife Grace R. Winter at that time. Grace R. Winter died in the late 1990's. The estate was divided and most of the artwork that was remaining in Lumen Martin Winter's studio located in their home in New Rochelle, NY transferred to his daughter, Catherine A. Winter. Catherine A. Winter was married to Thomas V. Nowak at the time of her mother's death. Catherine A. Winter died in 2006. All of the artwork in Catherine's estate transferred to Thomas V. Nowak. I, Kimberly H. Nowak, married Thomas V. Nowak in 2010.LUMEN MARTIN WINTER (1908-1982)Lumen Martin Winter, America's most renowned muralist, spent his childhood in western Kansas. Listed in "Who's Who in America." and "Who's Who in American Art," the celebrated artist still remembers noticing the ruts from the wagons in the ground of the Santa Fe Trail. After attending the Cleveland School of Art, the National Academy of Design in New York City, serving as an artist with the U.S. Signal Corps in the Air Force in WW II, working as a cartoonist and designer, Lumen Winter went to Santa Fe to settle in 1939. The next 39 years were to catapult Lumen Winter into the forefront as America's most renowned muralist and artist. His work, described by a Paris art critic in The Paris Moderne, "is not abstract nor is it realistic, but he has created synthesis which is all his own." "I have followed every movement since I was thirteen years old," states Mr. Winter, "but I have found all these movements to stem from the classic ages, even going back to the Ancients. I like the Renaissance because of its vitality and force which is similar to the expression of the 20 th century. Science has crept into our art to the point where it is difficult to say what is art and what is science." His rare genius is demonstrated in the murals at the U.S. Air Force Academy Chapels in Colorado Springs, at the National Wildlife Federation in Washington, D.C., at the AFL-CIO Headquarters in the Capitol, at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, Lincoln Center in New York City, at the Sheraton Hotel Lobby and the National Bank in Washington, D.C. among others.Murals and Sculptures: Fisherman Mural, Brooklyn Savings Bank, Brooklyn, New York; National Wildlife Federation, Headquarters Building, Washington, D.C. Dedicated by the late President John F. Kennedy; Labor Is Life, AFL-CIO Headquarters Building, Washington, D.C. Dedicated by the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower; Texas Abstract Mosaic, Lobby, Sheraton Southland Center, Dallas Texas; Six Wood Carvings, Vaqueros and Alamo Rooms, Southland Center, Dallas Texas; Stampede, Town Room, Southland Center, Dallas, Texas; The Conversion of St. Paul, Façade, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, Lincoln Center, New York City; Rhapsody in Gold, Park Sheraton Hotel, New York City; Our Lady of thruways, thirty foot bronze figure overlooking the New York and New England Thruways on the Cross Thruway; Our Lady of the Skies, U.S. Air Force Academy Chapel, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Dedicated by Francis Cardinal Spellman; Mosaic, Protestant area of the Air Force Academy Chapel; National Bank of Washington, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.; Union Central Life Insurance Company, Cincinnati, Ohio; St. Francis with the Birds and Animals of Missouri, St. Francis Hospital, Marceline, Missouri; Astor Home for Children, Rhinebeck, new York; Fairfield University, New Library Bu... read more

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