Painting

Title:

Blue Deering

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

2018.035.02

Creator:

Posever, Zena (1911-2012)Artist

Date:

1957

Description:

Painting of "Blue Deering," by Zena Posever (1911-2012), 1957. Oil on canvas. Abstract expressionist landscape painting of Deering (NH) Reservoir; trees in foreground and hills in background. Signed "Z Posever 57" in green paint, lower right. In period gray barnboard frame.

Material:

Textile

Dimensions:

H-22 W-28.25 inches

Provenance:

Painted by Zena Posever (1911-2012) when she and her daughter Verna were staying in nearby Washington, NH, in 1957. The painting was donated by Verna Posever Curtis.

Zena Goldin Posever was a painter, sculptor, and art teacher. She was born in Korop, Ukraine, and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1915 to join her father, Solomon Goldin, a watchmaker. She was active in the labor movement in Pennsylvania during the Depression and designed marionettes for the WPA Federal Theatre Project. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1939-1942. She had studios in Miami Beach, FL, and Winthrop, MA, in the 1950s. While in Winthrop, she traveled in Hillsborough and Sullivan Counties, NH, including a stay in Washington, NH, in the summer of 1957. She returned to her studio in Miami Beach in 1958.

Credit Line:

Gift of Verna Posever Curtis

People:

Posever, Zena (1911-2012)

Subjects:

Abstract paintings, Lakes & ponds, Reservoirs