LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Watercolor on Whatman board

Size Notes:

framed without glazing to overall 23.25 x 31.25 in

Markings:

Signed in paint right corner recto: VIKTOR SCHRECKENGOST; Signed and dated in ink verso; Annotated "sn 7714" with website information in graphite lower left corner verso

Condition:

there are remnants of masking tape on three edges verso, very minor edge and corner chipping

Exhibited:

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, "30 May Show, " May 5-June 13, 1948.

Literature:

H. Adams, Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2000, p. 23 illustrated; H. Adams, Viktor Schreckengost: American Da Vinci, Tide-Mark Press LTD., Windsor, Connecticut, 2006, pp. 78-9, p. 78 illustrated as "Banking Left," ca. 1945.In his personal notes, Viktor described this painting as an "Aerial landscape with horizon tipping to lower left; blue grey-green sky with dark clouds above; sparkly white and tan clouds over horizon with dark clouds in front. Land grey-tan flecked with low-lying white clouds...suggestion of sea beyond."